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Public Document No. 57.
SEVENTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
METROPOLITAN WATER AND
SEWERAGE BOARD.
For the Year 1917.
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BOSTON:
WRIGHT & POTTER PRINTING CO., STATE PRINTERS,
32 DERNE STREET.
1918.
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Publication of this Document
approved by the
Supervisor of Administration.
CONTENTS.
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I. Organization and Administration,
Board, Officers and Employees,
II. Metropolitan Water District, .
III. Metropolitan Water Works — Construction,
IV. Water Works — Maintenance, .
(1) Storage Reservoirs, .
(2) Aqueducts, . . . .
(3) Pumping Stations, . . .
(4) Protection of the Water Supply,
(5) Clinton Sewerage Works,
(6) Forestry, . . . .
Wachusett Power Plant,
Sudbury Power Plant,
Rainfall and Water Supply,
Water Consumption,
Water Works — Financial Statement,
(1) Water Loans — Receipts and Payments,
Total Water Debt, December 31, 1917,
Metropolitan Water Loan and Sinking Fund, December 31, 1917
Water Assessment, 1917,
Supplying Water to Cities and Towns outside of District and to Water
Expenditures for the Different Works,
Detailed Financial Statement under Metropolitan Water Act
(a) Expenditures and Disbursements, .
(b) Receipts, . . . .' ". .
(c) Assets, . . . ...
(d) Liabilities, . .
VI. Metropolitan Sewerage Works, .....
(1) North Metropolitan Sewerage System — Construction,
North Metropolitan Sewerage System — Maintenance,
Sewers and Pumping Stations, ....
South Metropolitan Sewerage System — Construction,
South Metropolitan Sewerage System — Maintenance,
Sewers and Pumping Stations, ....
VII. Sewerage Works — Financial Statement, ....
(1) Metropolitan Sewerage Loans, Receipts and Payments,
North Metropolitan System, ....
South Metropolitan System, ....
Total Sewerage Debt, December 31, 1917,
North Metropolitan System, ....
South Metropolitan System, ....
North and South Metropolitan Loan and Sinking Funds, December 31
Annual Appropriations, Receipts and Expenditures,
Sewer Assessments, 1917,
Expenditures for the Different Works,
Detailed Financial Statement,
(a) Expenditures and Disbursements,
(b) Receipts, ....
(c) Assets, ....
(d) Liabilities, ....
VIII. Recommendations for Legislation,
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Companies,
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Line,
Report of Chief Engineer of Water Works, .
Organization, .....
Construction, .....
Deferred Projects,
Wachusett-Sudbury Power Transmission
Additional Northern High-service Pipe Line and Pumping
Meters and Connections,
Maintenance, .....
Rainfall and Yield of Watersheds, .
Storage Reservoirs,
Wachusett Reservoir,
Sudbury Reservoir,
Framingham Reservoir No. 3, .
Framingham Reservoirs Nos. 1 and 2,
Farm Pond, ....
Lake Cochituate,
Aqueducts, .....
Wachusett Aqueduct,
Sudbury Aqueduct,
Weston Aqueduct, .
Cochituate Aqueduct,
Sanitary Inspection of Watersheds,
Wachusett Watershed,
Sudbury Watershed,
Cochituate Watershed,
Protection of the Water Supply,
Filtration and Chlorination,
Improvement of Swamps and Brooks,
Clinton Sewage Disposal Works,
Forestry, .....
Wachusett Department, .
Sudbury Department,
Pipe Lines and Reservoirs Department,
Hydro-electric Service, .
Wachusett Power Station,
Sudbury Power Station, .
Distribution Pumping Service,
Chestnut Hill Pumping Stations,
Spot Pond Pumping Station, .
Arlington Pumping Station,
Hyde Park Pumping Station, .
Distribution Reservoirs,
Weston Reservoir, .
Chestnut Hill, Fisher Hill and Waban Hill Reservoirs,
Spot Pond, Fells and Bear Hill Reservoirs,
Bellevue and Forbes Hill Reservoirs,
Arlington and Mystic Reservoirs,
Mystic Lake, Conduit and Pumping Station,
Grounds at Arlington and Hyde Park Pumping Stations,
Protection of Water Supply,
Distribution Pipe Lines,
Pipe Bridges,
Pipe Yards, ....
Meters, Regulating Valves and Recording Pressure Gages,
Breaks and Leaks, ......
Emergency Pipe Line Service, ....
Consumption of Water, .....
Installation of Meters on Service Pipes,
Water supplied outside of Metropolitan Water District,
Protection of Water Works Structures,
Quality of the Water, ......
Engineering, .......
Ashland, Hopkinton and Whitehall Reservoirs
Machinery
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Report of Chief Engineer of Sewerage Works,
Organization, ......
Metropolitan Sewerage Districts, .
Areas and Populations, ....
Metropolitan Sewers, .....
Sewers purchased and constructed and their Connections,
Construction, ......
North Metropolitan Sewerage System,
Section 1, Deer Island Outfall Extension,
Extension to Reading,
South Metropolitan Sewerage System,
Wellesley Extension, . . . .
Section 98, Wellesley Extension,
Section 99, Wellesley Extension,
Section 100, Wellesley Extension,
Section 101, Wellesley Extension,
Section 102, Wellesley Extension,
Maintenance, ......
Scope of Work and Force employed,
Deer Island Pumping Station, .
East Boston Pumping Station,
Charlestown Pumping Station,
Ward Street Pumping Station,
Seattle Street Conduit Crossing,
Nut Island, .....
Government Use of Old 24-inch Quincy Force Main,
Study of Sewerage in Mill Brook Valley in Arlington,
Gasolene in Public Sewers, ....
Drainage from Tanneries, Gelatine and Glue Works
Stoneham, .
Data relating to Areas and Populations contributing Sewage
Sewerage System,
North Metropolitan System,
South Metropolitan System,
Whole Metropolitan System,
Pumping Stations, . . ..
Capacity and Results,
North Metropolitan System,
Deer Island Pumping Station, .
East Boston Pumping Station, .
Charlestown Pumping Station, .
Alewife Brook Pumping Station,
South Metropolitan System,
Ward Street Pumping Station, .
Quincy Pumping Station, .
Nut Island Screen-house, .
Quincy Sewage Lifting Station, .
Metropolitan Sewerage Outfalls,
Material intercepted at the Screens,
in Winchester, Woburn and
to Metropolitan
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Appendix No. 1. -
Appendix No. 2. ■
Table No. 1
Table No. 2
Table No. 3
Table No. 4,
Table No. 5.
Table No. 6.
- Contracts relating to the Metropolitan Water Works made and pending dur-
ing the Year 1917, 142
— Tables relating to the Maintenance of the Metropolitan Water Works, . 149
— Monthly Rainfall in Inches at Various Places on the Metropolitan Water
Works in 1917, 149
— Rainfall in Inches at Jefferson, Mass., in 1917, ..... 150
— Rainfall in Inches at Framingham, Mass., in 1917, .... 151
— Rainfall in Inches at Chestnut Hill Reservoir in 1917, .... 152
— Rainfall in Inches on the Wachusett Watershed, 1897 to 1917, . . 154
— Rainfall in Inches on the Sudbury Watershed, 1875 to 1917, . . . 155
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Appendix No. 2 — Continued. page
Table No. 7. — Yield of the Wachusett Watershed in Gallons per Day per Square Mile
from 1897 to 1917, . . .157
Table No. 8. — Yield of the Sudbury Watershed in Gallons per Day per Square Mile
from 1875 to 1917, 159
Table No. 9. — Wachusett System. — Statistics of Flow of Water, Storage and Rainfall
in 1917, . . . • 163
Table No. 10. — Sudbury System. — Statistics of Flow of Water, Storage and Rainfall in
1917 164
Table No. 11. — Cochituate System. — Statistics of Flow of Water, Storage and Rainfall
in 1917, 165
Table No. 12. — Elevations of Water Surfaces of Reservoirs above Boston City Base at
the Beginning of Each Month, ........ 166
Table No. 13. — Sources from which and Periods during which Water has been drawn for
the Supply of the Metropolitan Water District, . . . . .167
Table No. 14. — Average Daily Quantity of Water flowing through Aqueducts in 1917 by
Months, ............ 168
Table No. 15. — Statement of Operation of Engines Nos. 1 and 2 at Chestnut Hill Pump-
ing Station No. 1 for the Year 1917, ....... 169
Table No. 16. — Statement of Operation of Engine No. 3 at Chestnut Hill Pumping Station
No. 1 for the Year 1917 170
Table No. 17. — Statement of Operation of Engine No. 4 at Chestnut Hill Pumping Station
No. 1 and Summary for the Station for the Year 1917, . . . 171
Table No. 18. — Statement of Operation of Engines Nos. 5, 6 and 7 at Chestnut Hill Pump-
ing Station No. 2 for the Year 1917 172
Table No. 19. — Statement of Operation of Engine No. 12 at Chestnut Hill Pumping
Station No. 2 for the Year 1917 173
Table No. 20. — Statement of Operation of Engine No. 8 at Spot Pond Pumping Station
for the Year 1917, 174
Table No. 21. — Statement of Operation of Engine No. 9 at Spot Pond Pumping Station
for the Year 1917, . . . 175
Table No. 22. — Statement of Operation of Engine No. 10 at Arlington Pumping Station
for the Year 1917, 176
Table No. 23. — Statement of Operation of Engine No. 11 at Arlington Pumping Station
for the Year 1917, 177
Table No. 24. — Statement of Operation of Engines Nos. 13 and 14 at Hyde Park Pumping
Station for the Year 1917, 178
Table No. 25. — (Meter Basis) Average Daily Consumption of Water by Districts in Cities
and Towns supplied by the Metropolitan Water Works in 1917, . . 179
Table No. 26. — (Meter Basis) Average Daily Consumption of Water in Cities and Towns
supplied from Metropolitan Works in 1917, ..... 180
Table No. 27. — (Pump Basis) Consumption of Water in the Metropolitan Water District,
as constituted in the Year 1917, and a Small Section of the Town of
Saugus, from 1893 to 1917 183
Table No. 28. — Chemical Examinations of Water from the Wachusett Reservoir, Clinton, . 185
Table No. 29. — Chemical Examinations of Water from the Sudbury Reservoir, . . 186
Table No. 30. — Chemical Examinations of Water from Spot Pond, Stoneham, . . . 187
Table No. 31. — Chemical Examinations of Water from Lake Cochituate, . . . 188
Table No. 32. — Chemical Examinations of Water from a Tap at the State House, Boston, 189
Table No. 33. — Averages of Examinations of Water from Various Parts of the Metropolitan
Water Works in 1917, 190
Table No. 34. — Chemical Examinations of Water from a Faucet in Boston, from 1892 to
1917, 191
Table No. 35. — Microscopic Organisms in Water from Various Parts of the Metropolitan
Water Works, from 1898 to 1917, inclusive, 192
Table No. 36. — Number of Bacteria per Cubic Centimeter in Water from Various Parts of
the Metropolitan Water Works, from 1898 to 1917, inclusive, . . 194
Table No. 37. — Colors of Water from Various Parts of the Metropolitan Water Works in
1917, 195
Table No. 38. — Temperatures of Water from Various Parts of the Metropolitan Water
Works in 1917 196
Table No. 39. — Temperatures of the Air at Three Stations on the Metropolitan Water
Works in 1917, 197
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Appendix No. 2 — Concluded. page
Table No. 40. — Table showing Length of Main Lines of Water Pipes and Connections
owned and operated by Metropolitan Water and Sewerage Board, and
Number of Valves set in Same, Dec. 31, 1917, 198
Table No. 41. — Statement of Cast-iron Hydrant, Blow-off and Drain Pipes, owned and
operated by Metropolitan Water and Sewerage Board, Dec. 31, 1917, . 199
Table No. 42. — Length of Water Pipes, Four Inches in Diameter and Larger, in the Several
Cities and Towns supplied by the Metropolitan Water Works, Dec. 31,
1917, .... .;•.... . . '. . . .200
Table No. 43. — Number of Service Pipes, Meters and Fire Hydrants in the Several Cities
and Towns supplied by the Metropolitan Water Works, . . . 201
Table No. 44. — Average Elevations of the Hydraulic Grade Line in Feet above Boston
City Base for each Month at Stations on the Metropolitan Water Works
during 1917, . . . . ' . . . ..... .202
Appendix No. 3. — Water Works Statistics for the Year 1917, ...... 204
Appendix No. 4. — Contracts relating to the Metropolitan Sewerage Works, made and pending
during the Year 1917, 206
Appendix No. 5. — Financial Statement presented to the General Court on Jan. 16, 1918, . 211
Appendix No. 6. — Legislation of the Year 1917 affecting the Metropolitan Water and Sewerage
Board, 216
Metropolitan Watee and Seweeage Boaed.
To the Honorable the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of
Massachusetts in General Court assembled.
The Metropolitan Water and Sewerage Board, established under
the provisions of chapter 168 of the Acts of the year 1901, has
already presented to your Honorable Body an abstract of the account
of its receipts, expenditures, disbursements, assets and liabilities for
the fiscal year ending on November 30, 1917, and now, in accord-
ance with the provisions of chapter 235 of the Acts of the year
1906, presents a detailed statement of its doings for the calendar
year ending on December 31, 1917, being its
SEVENTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT.
I. ORGANIZATION AND ADMINISTRATION.
Board, Officers and Employees.
The term of office of Henry P. Walcott expired on March 20,
and he was reappointed for the term of three years next succeeding.
At the end of the year the Board consisted of Henry P. Walcott,
chairman, Edward A. McLaughlin and Thomas E. Dwyer. William
N. Davenport has continued as secretary. Alfred F. Bridgman has
been the purchasing agent and Miss Alice G. Mason the bookkeeper.
There are also employed in the administrative office a paymaster,
an assistant in auditing, a first clerk, one general clerk, two stenog-
raphers and clerks, a telephone operator, and a janitor with two
assistants, both of whom act as watchmen.
Such general conveyancing work and investigation of real estate
titles in the different counties as have been called for during the
year have been performed by George D. Bigelow.
The consulting engineers of the Board are Hiram F. Mills and
Frederic P. Stearns, who are called upon for services when matters
arise which require their consideration.
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William E. Foss is Chief Engineer of Water Works and John L.
Howard Assistant to the Chief Engineer. The following are super-
intendents of departments under the direction of the Chief Engineer:
Eliot R. B. Allardice, Superintendent of the Wachusett Department;
Charles E. Haberstroh, Superintendent of the Sudbury and Co-
chituate Works and of the portion of the Weston Aqueduct above
the Weston Reservoir; Samuel E. Killam, Superintendent in charge
of the Weston Reservoir and the remaining portion of the Weston
Aqueduct, and of all distributing reservoirs and pipe lines within
the Metropolitan Water District; and Arthur E. O'Neil, Superin-
tendent of the several Water Works pumping stations.
The average engineering force employed on construction and main-
tenance during the year has included, in addition to the Chief
Engineer, 1 assistant to Chief Engineer, 4 department superintend-
ents, 1 division engineer, 8 assistant engineers and 26 others in
various engineering capacities, and as sanitary inspectors, clerks,
stenographers and messengers, the total force numbering 41.
A maintenance force in addition to those engaged in engineering
capacities, as above mentioned, numbering upon the average during
the year 284, has been required at the pumping stations, upon
reservoirs, aqueducts, pipe lines and upon minor construction work.
At the end of the year this force numbered 282.
Frederick D. Smith is Chief Engineer of Sewerage Works. He
has been assisted by Henry T. Stiff, Division Engineer in charge
of the office and drafting, by 4 assistant engineers and by 17 others
employed in different engineering capacities, and by 2 stenographers
and clerks.
The maximum engineering force employed at any one time during
the year on the construction and maintenance of the Sewerage
Works was 26.
The regular maintenance force required in addition for the opera-
tion of the pumping stations, the care and inspection of the sewers,
and for other parts of the Sewerage Works, exclusive of the engineers
and day-labor forces, on the average has been 160.
The whole regular force of the Sewerage Department at the end
of the year numbered 182, of whom the Chief Engineer and 21
assistants and draftsmen were engaged in general upon the works,
and of the remainder, 96 were employed upon the North System
and 64 upon the South System.
No. 57.] AND SEWERAGE BOARD. 3
The maximum number of men employed upon contracts and upon
day-labor construction on the Sewerage Works during the year was
for the week ending September 22, when the number amounted to
180.
II. METROPOLITAN WATER DISTRICT.
The Metropolitan Water District now comprises the cities of
Boston, Chelsea, Everett, Maiden, Medford, Melrose, Newton,
Quincy, Revere and Somerville, and the towns of Arlington, Bel-
mont, Lexington, Milton, Nahant, Stoneham, Swampscott, Water-
town and Winthrop, — in all 10 cities and 9 towns. The District
has an area of 174.8 square miles, no additional municipalities
having been admitted into the District during the year. Its popu-
lation, according to the State Census taken for April 1, 1915, was
1,201,300. The population of the District on July 1, 1917, the
date upon which calculations for the Water Works are based, was
estimated as 1,260,480.
III. METROPOLITAN WATER WORKS — CONSTRUCTION.
The total amount expended for the construction and acquisition
of the Metropolitan Water Works since the passage of the Metro-
politan Water Act in the year 1895 has been $42,983,832.39.
The total amount expended during the calendar year on account
of the construction and acquisition of works has been $60,240.76.
The details of this expenditure are as follows: on account of the
construction of a steel tank or reservoir on Bellevue Hill with con-
necting pipe lines the sum of $354.13; for work on account of the
power plant at Sudbury Dam and the construction of the Wachusett-
Sudbury transmission line, $23,191.15; for relocation of meters and
connections, $19,071.49; for installing a new pumping engine at the
Arlington pumping station, $7,434.14; for stock on hand, $9,334.93;
and for other minor works, engineering and administration expenses,
the sum of $854.92.
The construction of an electric transmission line from the Sud-
bury Dam power station to the similar station at the Wachusett
Dam is so far completed that the production of power at these two
stations can be used in the most advantageous manner during the
coming season. The line, with very few exceptions, has been laid
out on lands of the Commonwealth which are Under the control of
the Board. The Metropolitan District will then have secured and
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will continue to receive for all time a very substantial income,
which will not only do something to relieve the burden of debt
resting upon the District but will also more than restore to the
district, in which a serious destruction of existing water powers was
made, an amount of power far in excess of anything which that
district had ever enjoyed.
During the year the Board acquired the fee of 2.36 acres of land
in Southborough for the construction of the Wachusett-Sudbury
transmission line.
By chapter 814 of the Acts of 1913 authority was given the Board
to improve Beaver Dam Brook in the towns of Ashland, Framing-
ham, Sherborn and Natick. The improvement was offered for
contract on July 24, 1916, but the lowest bid was $20,000 in excess
of the amount available for the work and the Board was accordingly
unable to carry out the provisions of this legislation. The Board
has, however, by the employment of its own working force, effected
an improvement in the condition of the bed and banks of this stream
sufficient to obviate, for the present at least, any anxiety as to its
influence upon the health of the surrounding territory or an increasing
menace to the waters of Lake Cochituate.
In several directions there will be needed very large expenditures
for construction in the immediate future. The Board has hesitated
to bring them forward during these troubled times, but a much
longer delay to do so would be inexcusable. Additional pipe lines
are needed for the better and safer supply of the District. These
will require large amounts of money and the work will, of necessity,
involve much time in its execution. Whenever the growth of the
population makes imperative the use of all the sources of water
now available some system of filtration must be established in order
to maintain the satisfactory quality of the water now supplied.
Consideration has already been given to this subject and preliminary
plans have been suggested.
Some encouragement to large expenditures may be found in the
fact that in this District water for domestic uses is the only article
indispensable to man's life which has not been increased in price
by the present disturbed conditions in the world.
In the minds of some not familiar with systems of water works
there seems to exist an idea that when great works have been con-
structed the labors of oversight have ended. As a matter of fact
No. 57.] AND SEWERAGE BOARD. 5
they have then become most urgent. The State Board of Health
in its report of 1895 upon a Metropolitan Water System very care-
fully stated the many problems which the coming water board
would have to meet, and experience has shown that the statement
was not overdrawn.
It may be claimed with entire justice that the ability adequately
to maintain a complicated system of water supply requires qualifi-
cations not inferior to those of the men employed in the original
construction however they may differ in character.
IV. WATER WORKS — MAINTENANCE.
The maintenance and operation of the Metropolitan Water Works
during the past calendar year have required the expenditure of
$535,195.76.
(1) Storage Reservoirs.
The water in the Wachusett Reservoir reached its highest eleva-
tion, 395.55, on June 17.
The Sudbury Reservoir was at elevation 258.49 at the beginning
of the year and was kept at this elevation until flash-boards were
put in place April 9. From this time the w T ater was maintained
between elevations 259 and 260 until early in November when it
was drawn down to elevation 257 to facilitate the erection of the
poles for the Wachusett-Sudbury transmission line. During the
winter the water in Framingham Reservoir No. 3 was kept below
the crest of the overflow and during warm weather the water was
kept above the crest between elevations 185 and 186. Water was
drawn from Lake Cochituate for the water supply in August and
September.
It has not been necessary to draw water for the supply of the
Metropolitan District from Framingham Reservoir No. 1, Framing-
ham Reservoir No. 2, Ashland, Hopkinton and Whitehall reservoirs.
(2) Aqueducts.
The Wachusett Aqueduct was in service for the passage of water
from the Wachusett Reservoir to the Sudbury Reservoir during the
whole or portions of 302 days. The quantity of water flowing
through the aqueduct was equal to an average of 90,120,000 gallons
per day for the entire year. Of the total quantity of water ad-
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mitted to the aqueduct 99.1 per cent, was used before its admission
for the development of electric energy.
For distribution to the cities and towns of the Metropolitan
District water was drawn through the Sudbury Aqueduct to the
Chestnut Hill Reservoir every day in the year, the daily average
for the whole year being 55,553,000 gallons.
The Weston Aqueduct was in use on 304 days, the quantity of
water delivered through the aqueduct being equivalent to a daily
average of 52,079,000 gallons.
Water was discharged through the Cochituate Aqueduct on
29 days during the year, the total quantity of water discharged
being 125,400,000 gallons.
(3) Pumping Stations.
The total amount of water pumped at all the pumping stations
was 23,608,020,000 gallons, which is 1,568,750,000 gallons more than
in the previous year.
The following are the several pumping stations : —
Number
of
Engines.
Contract
Capacity per
Day
(Gallons).
Lift
(Feet).
Chestnut Hill high-service station,
Chestnut Hill low-service station,
Chestnut Hill low-service station,
Spot Pond station,
Arlington station,
Hyde Park station,
66,000,000
105,000,000
40,000,000
30,000,000
3,000,000
6,000,000
138
60
130
125
290
140
The amount expended for the operation of the stations was
$135,215.75, which is $36,942.53 more than for the year 1916.
The total amount of coal purchased during the year was 9,236.93
gross tons, of which 5,814.87 tons were bituminous and 3,422.06
tons anthracite. All of the anthracite coal was screenings. The
average cost of bituminous coal delivered in the bins at the various
stations varied from $5.55 to $8.81, and the average cost of anthra-
cite coal varied from $4.06 to $5.39.
No. 57.] AND SEWERAGE BOARD. 7
(4) Protection of the Water Supply.
The Marlborough Brook filter-beds, on which is filtered the water
received from brooks passing through the thickly settled portions of
Marlborough, have been adequate for the filtration of all the water
received.
The Pegan Brook pumping station, at which is pumped upon the
filter-beds the surface drainage of about one square mile in the
thickly settled portion of Natick, was in successful operation on 234
days in the year.
The filter-beds which receive for filtration the water flowing
through the thickly settled portion of the town of Sterling, as well
as the smaller filter-beds which receive the drainage from a few
houses near Sterling Junction, the Worcester County Training
School at West Boylston and from the swimming pool at South-
borough, have been in successful operation and required only the
usual attention during the year.
Studies for the disposal of manufacturing wastes, as well as for
the disposal of house drainage from the various towns within the
drainage area of the Metropolitan Water System, have been in
progress during the year.
Constant inspection of the watersheds has been maintained by
the Sanitary Inspector and his assistants and members of the main-
tenance force.
Chemical examinations of the waters used were made by the
State Department of Health, and in addition, microscopical and
bacterial examinations were made by the Board. These examina-
tions enable the Board to take measures to remedy any difficulties
which are found to exist.
The quality of the water brought to the Metropolitan District
continues to be satisfactory both in taste and in appearance. This
condition results in a large measure from the fact that it is still
possible to reject some of the sources which were in use before the
extension of the water works to the South Branch of the Nashua
River at Clinton. The water derived from the Wachusett watershed
has been superior to that coming from the Sudbury and Cochituate
sources. The first-named supply, so far as possible, has been that
conveyed to the District; the others have been wasted to a greater
or less extent as occasion has permitted.
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The time, however, is approaching when all the sources will be
required for the supply of the District. When that day arrives it
will be necessary, without doubt, to filter these inferior waters in
order to bring them to the standard of excellence to which the Dis-
trict has become accustomed since the establishment of the Metro-
politan Water Supply.
During the year the Board acquired the fee of 15.81 acres of
land in Boylston for the protection and improvement of the water
supply.
(5) Clinton Sewerage Works.
The Board has maintained and operated since September 15, 1899,
works for the disposal of the sewage of the town of Clinton on lands
acquired for the purpose in the town of Lancaster under the author-
ity of chapter 557 of the Acts of the year 1898. By section 3 of
this chapter "The metropolitan water board shall maintain and
operate the works constructed by it, unless otherwise agreed by
said board and the town of Clinton, until the sewage of said town
shall have outgrown the normal capacity of the south branch of the
Nashua river to properly dispose thereof; and then said board shall
transfer to said town all the works, lands, water rights, rights of
way, easements and other property constructed and acquired under
the provisions hereof, upon such terms as may be agreed upon by
said board and said town, and thereafter said works, lands, water
rights, rights of way, easements and other property shall be owned,
maintained and operated by the town of Clinton under the super-
vision and control of the state board of health, and said town shall
pay to the Commonwealth for the property so transferred such sum
or sums, if any, as may be agreed by said town and said board to
be just and proper."
In the opinion of the Board the time is near at hand, if it has
not already been reached, when this provision of the statute should
become operative. Repeated examinations of the material now
treated upon the South Lancaster filter-beds both as to quantity
and quality would seem to show that the amount of sewage here
treated could not be turned into the South Branch of the Nashua
River without producing conditions of serious importance to the
inhabitants of the towns on the stream below this point.
No. 57.] AND SEWERAGE BOARD. 9
(6) Forestry.
An area of about 74 acres back of the westerly portion of the
North Dike at the Wachusett Reservoir was cleared of a growth
of scrub oak and planted with four-year-old white pine seedlings
from the North Dike nursery. An area of 3 J acres located near
the terminal chamber of the Wachusett Aqueduct was cleared and
planted with four-year-old white pine seedlings from the North
Dike nursery.
Along the open channel of the Wachusett Aqueduct in South-
borough and the marginal lands of the Wachusett Reservoir in
Clinton, Boylston, and West Boylston 103| acres of water works
land were planted with four-year-old white pine seedlings from the
North Dike nursery and five-year-old white spruce seedlings from
the Oakdale nursery. In this work 98,100 white pine and 1,300
white spruce seedlings were used. In the fall 8,550 five-year-old
white pine seedlings were planted to fill in where trees from previous
plantings had died, and about 700 white pine trees 18 to 24 inches
in height were set out on the site of three buildings which were
removed from water works land between High Street and the Clinton
sewerage filter-beds in Lancaster.
There are now in the Oakdale nursery 202,870 seedlings from one
to six years old and in the North Dike nursery 44,000 three and
five-year-old seedlings, which are ready for future planting.
Since the beginning of forestal work on Wachusett Reservoir
marginal lands, 1,497 acres have been planted.
About 28 acres of Sudbury Reservoir marginal lands were cleared
of small trees and brush and 49,300 three-year-old white pine seed-
lings, 43,700 three-year-old Scotch pines, 44,050 three-year-old red
pines and 43,500 four-year-old white spruces were planted from the
nursery. Fifteen hundred three-year-old white pines were set out
west of Edgell Street, Nobscot and 1,500 were set out on the gravel
slope between the aqueduct and the old Connecticut Path in Way-
land.
The ravages of the gypsy and brown-tail moths and of the elm-
leaf beetle and the pine tree weevil have continued during the year,
requiring a large amount of work and considerable expense to pro-
tect the trees on lands controlled by the Board. The egg clusters of
the gypsy moth have been painted with creosote and nests of the
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brown-tail moth destroyed by burning, and extensive spraying has
been required for the preservation of trees infested by moths and
elm-leaf beetles. It has been noticed that the brown-tail moth has
entirely disappeared from water works lands in the Wachusett
Department. The pine tree blister has not yet been found on the
Wachusett Reservoir lands.
(7) Wachusett Power Plant.
The hydro-electric power station at the Wachusett Dam was
operated on 299 days during the year. The energy not used in
connection with the operation of the Metropolitan Water Works
was sold to the New England Power Company under an agreement
made September 30, 1916, which provides that until the completion
of the Wachusett-Sudbury transmission line the Company will take
as much energy from the Wachusett power station as it can reason-
ably and properly use without wasting water at its own plants.
The operation of the plant continues to be successful, the gross
earnings for the year being $37,269.46. The cost of operating the
plant has been $16,948.98, the net earnings $20,320.48, and the net
earnings per thousand kilowatt hours generated, $2.89.
(8) Sudbury Power Plant.
The hydro-electric power station at the Sudbury Dam was oper-
ated on 304 days during the year. The entire output, with the
exception of a small amount of energy used for lighting the station
and operating the electrically driven accessories, has been sold to
the Edison Electric Illuminating Company of Boston under a con-
tract dated December 21, 1914. The gross earnings for the year
were $30,962.47, the cost of operating the plant $18,581.26 and the
net earnings $12,111.21. The net earnings per thousand kilowatt
hours generated were $2,466.
(9) Rainfall and Water Supply.
The rainfall is still below the average, and somewhat less than
in the preceding year. On the Wachusett watershed the rainfall
was 37.26 inches and on the Sudbury watershed 41.51 inches, while
the averages for the periods covered by the records have been,
respectively, 44.91 inches and 44.60 inches.
The Wachusett watershed yielded a daily average of 834,000
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gallons per square mile, which is 78.5 per cent, of the average for
the past twenty-one years, and the Sudbury watershed yielded a
daily average of 750,000 gallons per square mile, which is 76.5 per
cent, of the average for the past forty-three years. The yield from
the Cochituate watershed was 786,000 gallons per day per square
mile, which is 85.5 per cent, of the average for the past fifty-five
years.
(10) Watee Consumption.
During the year the quantity of water supplied to the Metro-
politan Water District amounted to a daily average of 110,032,300
gallons as measured by Metropolitan Water Works meters, which
was equivalent to 90 gallons for each person in the District. This
quantity was 3,699,500 gallons more than the average daily con-
sumption of the preceding year.
Acting under the authority conferred by several statutes and
arrangements which have been made, water has been supplied to a
limited extent outside of the Metropolitan Water District. There
has been drawn from the open channel of the Wachusett Aqueduct
for the use of the Westborough State Hospital a daily average
quantity of 157,000 gallons. The town of Framingham has, under
the provisions of the statute, drawn indirectly from Farm Pond a
daily average quantity of 569,300 gallons and directly from the
Sudbury Aqueduct 499,452 gallons. A portion of the town of
Saugus has been supplied through the city of Revere with an average
of 12,900 gallons daily. The United States Government, for use on
Peddock's Island, has been supplied with a daily average of 87,300
gallons. The sums charged for the water thus supplied have
amounted to $8,598.58.
V. WATER WORKS — FINANCIAL STATEMENT.
The financial abstract of the receipts, disbursements, assets and
liabilities of the Board for the State fiscal year, beginning with
December 1, 1916, and ending with November 30, 1917, was, in
accordance with the requirements of chapter 235 of the Acts of the
year 1906, presented to the General Court in January last, and a
copy of this financial abstract is printed as Appendix No. 5.
As required by said chapter a detailed statement of its doings for
the calendar year 1917, in relation to the Metropolitan Water W T orks,
is herewith presented.
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Construction.
(1) Water Loans — Receipts and Payments.
Total loans authorized to January 1, 1918, $42,798,000 00
Receipts from the sales of property applicable to the construc-
tion and acquisition of works : —
For the period prior to January 1, 1917, . . $252,478 79
For the year ending December 31, 1917, . . 1,366 66
253,845 45
Receipt from the town of Swampscott for admission to District
(St. 1909, c. 320), 90,000 00
Total amount authorized to January 1, 1918, . . . $43,141,845 45
Amounts approved by Board for payments out of Water Loan
Fund: —
Payments prior to January 1, 1917, . . $42,923,591 63
Approved for year ending December 31, 1917, 60,240 76
42,983,832 39
Amount authorized but not expended January 1, 1918, . $158,013 06
(2) Total Water Debt, December 31, 1917.
Water Loan Outstanding, Sinking Fund and Debt.
Bonds issued by the Treasurer of the Commonwealth: —
Sinking fund bonds (3 and 3| per cent.), $41,398,000 00
Serial bonds (3£ and 4 per cent.), 1,354,000 00
Total bond issue to December 31, 1917, ... . . $42,752,000 00
Serial bonds paid prior to January 1, 1917, . . $72,000 00
Serial bonds paid in 1917, 32,000 00
104,000 00
Total bond issue outstanding December 31, 1917, . . $42,648,000 00
Gross Water Debt, $42,648,000 00
Sinking fund December 31, 1917, 14,036,278 88
Net Water Debt December 31, 1917, . . . . ' . $28,611,721 12
A decrease for the year of $650,079.52.
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AND SEWERAGE BOARD.
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(3) Metropolitan Water Loan and Sinking Fund,
December 31, 1917.
Year.
Authorized
Loans.
Bonds
issued (Sinking
Fund).
Bonds
issued (Serial
Bonds).
Sinking Fund.
1895,
1896,
1897,
1898,
1899,
1900,
1901,
1902,
1903,
1904,
1905,
1906,
1907,
1908,
1909,
1910,
1911,
1912,
1913,
1914,
1915,
1916,
1917,
$27,000,000
13,000,000
500,000
398,000
900,000
80,000
212,000
600,000
108,000
$42,798,000
§5,000,000
2,000,000
6,000,000
4,000,000
3,000,000
1,000,000
10,000,000
3,500,000
1,500,000
2,500,000
650,000
1,350,000
398,000
500,000
$41,398,000
$200,000
190,000
258,000
490,000
66,000
150,000
$1,354,000
$226,286 05
699,860 70
954,469 00
1,416,374 29
1,349,332 97
1,573,619 72
1,662,426 95
2,256,803 81
2,877,835 59
3,519,602 92
4,207,045 69
4,897,822 62
5,643,575 69
6,419,283 28
7,226,262 31
8,089,902 91
8,953,437 44
9,829,356 80
10,767,701 68
11,533,453 45
12,491,245 25
13,268,199 36
14,036,278 88
(4) Water Assessment, 1917.
The following water assessment was made by the Treasurer of the
Commonwealth upon the various municipalities: —
Sinking fund requirements,
Serial bonds, $37,000 00
Less premium, 1,260 00
Interest,
Maintenance: —
Appropriated by Legislature,
Less balance on hand,
Total water assessment for 1917,
$260,500 34
35,740 00
1,464,158 15
$572,900 00
24,985 75
547,914 25
. $2,308,312 74
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In accordance with chapter 488, Acts of 1895, as amended in 1901,
1904 and 1906, the proportion to be paid by each city and town is
based one-third in proportion to their respective valuations and
the remaining two-thirds in proportion to their respective water
consumption for the preceding year, except that but one-fifth of
the total valuation and no consumption has been taken for the
city of Newton, as it has not been supplied with water from the
Metropolitan Works.
The division of the assessment for 1917 was as follows: —
Cities and Towns.
Assessment.
Cities and Towns.
Assessment.
$20,544 00
11,132 99
1,752,004 76
55,819 61
54,125 31
9,357 91
51,636 95
33,666 75
18,835 83
18,284 15
$5,539 95
6,523 29
59,042 03
31,688 52
118,425 67
8,614 63
12,460 26
24,045 68
16,564 45
$2,308,312 74
(5) Supplying Water to Cities and Towns outside of
District and to Water Companies.
Sums have been received during 'the year 1917 under the pro-
visions of the Metropolitan Water Act, for water furnished, as
follows : —
City of Revere (on account of water furnished to a portion of the
town of Saugus for 1916), $400 00
United States Government (for Peddock's Island), . . . .2,115 79
Westborough State Hospital, , 1,455 51
$3,971 30
The sums so received prior to March 23, 1907, were annually dis-
tributed among the cities and towns of the District; but since that
date, in accordance with the provisions of chapter 238 of the Acts
of 1907, the sums so received have been paid into the sinking fund.
No. 57.]
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(6) EXPENDITURES FOE THE DIFFERENT WORKS.
The following is a summary of the expenditures made in the vari-
ous operations for the different works : —
Construction and Acquisition of Works.
For the Year ending
December 31, 1917.
Administration applicable to all parts of the construction and acquisition of
the works,
Wachusett Department, real estate,
Power Plant at Sudbury Dam,
Wachusett-Sudbury Power Transmission Line,
Distribution system: —
Low service: —
Pipe lines and connections,
Northern extra high service : —
New pumping engine at Arlington pumping station,
Southern extra high service: —
Section 44 (12-inch connection in West Roxbury),
Bellevue Reservoir on Bellevue Hill in Bostorj ,
Weston Aqueduct supply mains
Meters and connections,
Stock — pipes, valves, castings, etc., purchased and sent first to storage yards,
and later transferred, as needed, to the various parts of the work: —
Amount received,
Transferred from storage yards to the various sections of the work and in-
cluded in costs of special works,
Amount charged from beginning of work to January 1, 1917,
Total for construction and acquisition of works to January 1, 1918,
$179 14
7,434 14
$658 78
3 00
4,971 46
18,219 69
9 38
344 75
1
14 00
19,071 49
27,052 90
$19,836 13
10,501 20
9,334 93
60,240 76
42,923,591 63
$42,983,832 39
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Maintenance and Operation.
For the Year ending
December 31, 1917.
Administration,
General supervision,
Taxes and other expenses,
Wachusett Department: —
Superintendence
Reservoir, .
Forestry,
Protection of supply,
Buildings and grounds,
Wachusett Dam,
Wachusett Aqueduct,
Clinton sewerage system : —
Pumping station,
Sewers, screens and filter-beds,
Sanitary inspection,
Swamp drainage,
Power plant,
Payments under Industrial Accident Law and special benefit appropriations,
Sudbury Department: —
Superintendence, Framingham office,
Ashland Reservoir,
Hopkinton Reservoir,
Whitehall Reservoir,
Framingham Reservoirs Nos. 1, 2 and 3,
Sudbury Reservoir,
Lake Cochituate,
Marlborough Brook filters,
Pegan filters,
Sudbury and Cochituate watersheds,
Sanitary inspection, ...........
Cochituate Aqueduct,
Sudbury Aqueduct,
Weston Aqueduct,
Forestry,
Power plant,
Improvement and protection of water supplies,
Payments under Industrial Accident Law and special benefit appropriations,
Distribution Department: —
Superintendence,
Pumping service: —
Superintendence,
Payments under Industrial Accident Law and special benefit appropria-
tions,
Arlington pumping station, pumping service,
Chestnut Hill low-service pumping station, pumping service,
Chestnut Hill high-service pumping station, pumping service,
Spot Pond pumping station, pumping service,
Hyde Park pumping station, pumping service,
Amounts carried forward,
$8,018 25
7,761 31
13,693 31
11,638 93
3,048 24
7,174 09
12,321 02
1,526 16
5,336 54
1,171 68
3,859 34
6,643 98
80 78
$11,435 58
2,599 77
2,039 67
1,007 43
12,523 08
8,005 12
9,342 17
2,906 95
4,515 34
1,723 88
3,730 68
3,260 62
11,823 79
9,970 78
7,596 44
9,877 26
3,372 50
510 95
$6,349 16
5,098 28
5 00
13,418 67
58,708 65
26,578 13
22,801 02
8,606 00
$17,876 18
37,047 60
42,634 57
82,273 63
106,242 01
$141,564 91 $286,073 99
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AND SEWERAGE BOARD.
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Maintenance and Operation.
For the Year ending
December 31, 1917.
Arnounts brought forward,
Bear Hill Reservoir,
Chestnut Hill Reservoir and grounds,
Fells Reservoir
Forbes Hill Reservoir,
Mystic Lake, conduit and pumping station,
Mystic Reservoir ......
Arlington standpipe, ............
Waban Hill Reservoir, ...........
Weston Reservoir, ............
Spot Pond, . .
Buildings at Spot Pond, ..........
Pipe lines: —
Low service,
Northern high service, ..........
Northern extra high service, .........
Southern high service,
Southern extra high service, .........
Supply pipe lines,
Buildings at Chestnut Hill Reservoir,
Chestnut Hill pipe yard,
Glenwood pipe yard and buildings, ........
Stables,
Venturi meters
Measurement of water,
Arlington pumping station, buildings and grounds, . . . . .
Hyde Park pumping station, buildings and grounds, . . . . .
Fisher Hill Reservoir, ...........
Bellevue Reservoir, ...........
Payments under Industrial Accident Law and special benefit appropriatior s,
Total for maintaining and operating works,
$141,564 91 $286,073 99
265 51
12,134 26
991 90
2,074 32
3,123 61
1,273 51
16 14
207 73
3,662 06
8,521 S6
1,231 39
25,098 22
6,399 80
167 63
6,165 33
173 41
501 04
13,791 02
1,414 23
2,604 57
9,949 85
975 08
1,781 98
650 68
587 80
2,966 66
251 10
576 17
249,121 77
$535,195 76
(7) Detailed Financial Statement under Metropolitan
Water Act.
The Board herewith presents, in accordance with the requirements
of the Metropolitan Water Act, a detailed statement of the expendi-
tures and disbursements, receipts, assets and liabilities for the year
1917.
(a) Expenditures and Disbursements.
The total amount of the expenditures and disbursements on ac-
count of construction and acquisition of works for the year beginning
January 1, 1917, and ending December 31, 1917, was 860,240.76
and the total amount from the time of the organization of the
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Metropolitan Water Board, July 19, 1895, to December 31, 1917,
has been $42,983,832.3$.
For maintenance and operation the expenditures for the year
were $535,195.76.
The salaries of the commissioners, and the other expenses of
administration, have been apportioned to the construction of the
works and to the maintenance and operation of the same, and
appear under each of those headings.
The following is a division of the expenditures according to their
general character: —
General Character of Expenditures.
For the Year ending
December 31, 1917.
Construction* of Works and Acquisttion by Purchase or Taking.
Administration.
Clerks and stenographers,
Stationery and printing, .......
Postage, express and telegrams, .....
Alterations and repairs of building
Telephone, lighting, heating, water and care of building,
Rent and taxes, main office, ......
Miscellaneous expenses,
Engineering
Chief engineer, .
Principal assistant engineers,
Engineering assistants,
Consulting engineers,
Inspectors,
Railroad and street car travel,
Stationery and printing, .
Alterations and repairs of building — main office
Telephone, lighting, heating, water and care of buildings: —
Main office,
Rent and taxes, main office,
Miscellaneous expenses,
Construction.
Contracts, Distribution System: —
Builders Iron Foundry, for furnishing Venturi meters and registers, Con-
tract 375, .............
Coffin Valve Co., for furnishing 36-inch and 48-inch check valves, Con-
tract 378A, ............
Coffin Valve Co.. for furnishing screw-lift water valves, Contract 377,
Fred A. Houdlette & Son, Inc., for furnishing cast-iron frames and covers,
Contract 381
Ludlow Valve Mfg. Co., for furnishing check valves, Contract 378, .
Amounts carried forward, ..........
$287 55
205 27
40 00
44
74 03
46 49
5 00
S303 03
765 18
1,387 51
591 00
377 50
212 89
133 74
1 34
222 12
139 48
169 26
SI ,423 00
2,350 00
6,965 00
913 36
1,019 55
S658 78
4,303 05
$12,670 91
$4,961 83
No. 57.]
AND SEWERAGE BOARD.
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Geneeal Character of Expenditures.
For the Year ending
December 31, 1917.
Amounts brought forward,
Con.
Construction
Contracts, Distribution System — Con.
F. A. Mazzur & Co., for furnishing and installing a centrifugal pumping unit
at the northern extra high-service pumping station at Arlington, Mass.,
Contract 382, . . . - '
New England Structural Co., for furnishing steelwork for valve chambers
for 36-inch valves, Contract 380,
Daniel Russell Boiler Works, Inc., for furnishing street chambers for Venturi
meter registers, Contract 379, . .
Standard Cast Iron Pipe & Foundry Co., for furnishing special castings,
Contract 374,
Contracts, Power Plant at Sudbury Dam: —
Westinghouse Electric & Mfg. Co., for furnishing and installing hydro-
electric machinery at Sudbury Dam, Contract 364A, ....
S. Morgan Smith Co., for furnishing and installing hydraulic machinery at
Sudbury Dam, Contract 364, . . .
Contract, Wachusett-Sudbury Power Transmission Line: —
Fred T. Ley & Co., Inc., for constructing an electric power transmission line
between the Wachusett Power Station in Clinton and the Sudbury
Power Station in Southborough, Mass., Contract 385, . . .
Additional work: —
Labor, ..............
Freight and express,
Jobbing and repairing
Tools, machinery, appliances and hardware supplies,
Electrical supplies,
Castings, ironwork and metals, .
Iron pipe and valves, . .
Paint and coating, . . . . . . . .
Lumber and field buildings,
Drain pipe
Brick, cement and stone,
Sand, gravel and filling,
Miscellaneous expenses,
Real Estate.
Legal and expert: —
Conveyancing supplies, ....
Conveyancing expenses,
Settlements made by the Board, .
Amount charged from beginning of work to January 1, 1917,
Total amount of construction expenditures to January 1, 1918,
$12,670 91 £4,961 83
3,850 00
961 17
1,650 00
4,264 48
2,009 19
1,326 85
13,294 14
$8,867 80
660 34
214 30
505 79
75 88
465 17
1,157 86
350 83
317 41
5 85
695 98
55 25
38 55
$3 00
88 18
1,750 00
40,026 74
13,411 01
1,841 18
60,240 76
42,923,591 63
$42,983,832 39
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General Character of Expenditures.
For the Year ending
December 31, 1917."
Maintenance and Operation of Works.
Administration: —
Commissioners, ........
Secretary and assistants, ......
Rent,
Repairs of building,
Fuel
Lighting,
Care of building,
Postage
Printing, stationery and office supplies,
Telephones
Traveling expenses, .......
Miscellaneous expenses,
General supervision : —
Chief engineer and assistants,
Rent,
Repairs of building,
Fuel,
Lighting, . . . . . . . . . . . .
Care of building,
Postage, ..............
Express and telegrams, ..........
Printing, stationery and office supplies,
Telephones,
Traveling expenses,
Miscellaneous expenses, . . . . . . . .
Pumping service: —
Superintendence, ............
Labor,
Fuel '.
Oil, waste and packing, ...........
Repairs, ..............
Small supplies,
Payments under Industrial Accident Law and special benefit appropriations,
Reservoirs, aqueducts, pipe lines, buildings and grounds: —
Superintendents, .
Engineering assistants,
Sanitary inspectors,
Labor, pay roll,
Labor, miscellaneous,
Alterations and repairs of pumping stations,
Amounts carried forward, ....
$7,416 67
7,439 93
703 60
25 33
130 60
76 48
591 99
156 00
1,028 44
122 70
61 26
123 18
$28,186 37
2,110 83
799 61
391 78
230 96
1,776 16
193 00
201 30
1,284 05
404 96
736 30
732 28
$5,098 28
71,117 03
51,464 65
1,545 44
4,873 86
1,111 49
5 00
$7,320 00
12,575 06
2,972 58
197,159 87
2,703 72
1,405 06
$17,876 18
37,047 60
135,215 75
$224,136 29 $190,139 53
No. 57.]
AND SEWERAGE BOARD.
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General Character of Expenditures.
For the Year ending
December 31, 1917.
Amounts brought forward,
Reservoirs, aqueducts, pipe lines, buildings and grounds — Con.
Alterations and repairs of other buildings and structures,
Automobiles, .
Brick,
Brooms, brushes and janitor's supplies,
Castings, ironwork and metals,
Cement and lime, .
Drafting and photo supplies,
Electrical supplies,
Fertilizer and planting material,
Freight and express,
Fuel,
Gypsy moth supplies
Hardware,
Hay and grain,
Horses, .
Lighting,
Lumber, .
Machinery,
Paints and oils,
Pipe and fittings,
Postage, .
Printing, stationery and office supplies
Rubber and oiled goods,
Stable expenses,
Sand, gravel and stone, .
Traveling expenses,
Telephones,
Teaming,
Tools and appliances,
Vehicles, harnesses and fittings,
Miscellaneous expenses, .
Contracts: —
Crowley & Hickey, Contract 50-M, for constructing the superstructure of
garaee at Chestnut Hill Reservoir,
Payments underlndustrial Accident Law and special benefit appropriations,
Payments in lieu of taxes,
§224,136 29 $190,139 53
5,249 65
12,029 85
237 00
265 77
1,483 12
720 59
204 55
1,325 49
2,209 82
395 78
2,977 48
2,755 79
1,469 82
1,425 74
516 00
307 38
4,570 80
1,002 28
1,698 10
1,073 00
95 92
650 28
466 47
776 65
267 70
2,381 41
1,224 77
3,423 44
4,195 14
256 95
14,548 63
6,912 10
1,167 80
Total expenditures for maintenance and operation,
302,421 66
42,634 57
$535,195 76
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(b) Receipts.
The total amount of receipts from the operations of the Board
and from sales of property for the year beginning January 1, 1917,
and ending December 31, 1917, was $79,753.69, and the total amount
from the time of the organization of the Metropolitan Water Board,
July 19, 1895, to December 31, 1917, has been $1,392,690.87. The
general character of these receipts is as follows : —
General Character of Receipts.
For the Year ending
December 31, 1917.
Applicable to the loan fund: —
Land and buildings
Construction tools, supplies and reimbursements,
Applicable to payment of interest, sinking fund requirements and expenses
of maintenance and operation: —
Proceeds from operations of the Board: —
Rents,
Land products, . . . . \ . . ,
Electric energy,
Maintenance labor, tools, supplies and reimbursements,
Interest and unclassified receipts, ....
Applicable to the sinking fund: —
Water supplied to cities and towns, water companies and others,
Amount credited from beginning of work to January 1, 1917,
Total receipts to January 1,1918,
$100 00
1,266 66
SI, 631 00
4,543 72
64,883 80
3,254 66
102 55
$1,366 66-
74,415 73
3,971 30
$79,753 69
1,312,937 18
$1,392,690 87
The foregoing receipts have been credited to the various objects,
or works, as follows : —
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,AND SEWERAGE BOARD.
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Sources of Receipts.
For the Year ending
December 31, 1917.
Supplying water outside of Water District
Construction and acquisition of works: —
Administration,
Wachusett Reservoir,
Sudbury Reservoir,
Distribution system,
Purchase of existing water works,
Maintenance and operation of works
Administration,
General supervision,
Wachusett Aqueduct,
Wachusett Reservoir,
Wachusett electric power plant,
Sudbury system, .
Sudbury electric power plant,
Distribution system,
Clinton sewerage system,
Amount credited from beginning, of work to January 1, 1917,
Total receipts to January 1, 1918
250 00
48 25
968 41
100 00
$132 32
202 15
391 61
3,510 84
34,319 65
2,671 67
30,564 15
1,716 21
810 65
J.971 30
1,463 14
74,319 25
$79,753 69
1,312,937 18
$1,392,690 87
(c) Assets.
The following is an abstract of the assets of the Water Works,
a complete schedule of which is kept on file in the office of the
Board : —
Office furniture, fixtures and supplies; engineering and scientific instruments
and supplies; police supplies; horses, vehicles, field machinery, etc.; ma-
chinery, tools and other appliances and supplies; completed works, real
estate and buildings connected therewith.
(d) Liabilities.
The sums due on monthly pay rolls amount to $355.56 and there
are bills for current expenses which have not yet been received.
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Amounts on Monthly Estimates, not due until Completion of Contracts or until
Claims are settled.
Name.
Work.
Amount.
Joseph Hanreddy, ....
F. A. Mazzur & Co., ....
Fred T. Ley & Co., ....
Contract 314, Section 7 of the Weston Aqueduct
Supply Mains.
Contract 382, for furnishing and installing a cen-
trifugal pumping unit at the northern extra high
service pumping station at Arlington, Mass.
Contract 385, for constructing an electric power
transmission line between the Wachusett Power
Station in Clinton, and the Sudbury Power
Station in Southborough, Mass.
$10 00
1,650 00
2,346 03
VI. METROPOLITAN SEWERAGE WORKS.
The North Metropolitan Sewerage District embraces the cities of
Cambridge, Chelsea, Everett, Maiden, Medford, Melrose, Revere,
Somerville and Woburn, and the towns of Arlington, Belmont, Read-
ing, Stoneham, Wakefield, Winchester and Winthrop and parts of
the city of Boston and the town of Lexington, — comprising in all
10 cities and 8 towns, with an area of 100.32 square miles. The
district has an estimated population, based upon the census of 1915,
as of December 31, 1917, of 633,220. Of the total population it
is estimated that 89.7 per cent., or 568,075 people, contribute
sewage to the North Metropolitan System.
The South Metropolitan Sewerage District includes the cities of
Newton, Quincy and Waltham, and the towns of Brookline, Milton,
Watertown and Wellesley, and parts of the city of Boston and the
town of Dedham, — a total of 4 cities and 5 towns. This district
has an area of 110.76 square miles, with an estimated population
as of December 31, 1917, of 473,070. According to the estimates
made 72.4 per cent, of this population, or 342,715, contribute sewage
to the South Metropolitan System.
(1) North Metropolitan Sewerage System — Construction.
The amount expended for construction on account of the North
Metropolitan System during the past year was $36,585.93.
The extension of the Deer Island outfall, authorized by chapter
344 of the Acts of 1914, has been completed and since the early
days of December the sewage of the district has been discharged
through the new openings.
A carefullv contrived distribution of the effluent matters over a
No. 57.] AND SEWERAGE BOARD. 25
considerable area at a distance below the surface of the harbor
offers the best obtainable solution of the nuisance hitherto existing.
So far as could be observed at this season of the year the method
has been successful. The discharge of sewage from single out-
lets on the South Metropolitan High-level System near Peddock's
Island at a considerable depth from the surface of the water has
been free from objectionable odors and there is every reason for
expecting results at least as favorable from the Deer Island out-
falls, which are even more likely to mix thoroughly the sewage with
large quantities of sea water than has been the case of the outlets
near Peddock's Island.
By chapter 159 of the Acts of 1916 the town of Reading became
a part of the North Metropolitan Sewerage District. The plans for
the construction of the necessary connecting sewer have been made,
but no contractor has been found who is willing to undertake its
construction within the limits of the appropriation made for this
purpose.
It cannot be necessary to call the attention of the Legislature to
the unprecedented conditions which now attend the construction of
work, public or private. Experienced contractors employed by this
Board have lost large sums of money in the honest execution of
their obligations by reason of the rapid increase in wages and in
materials which are required by the work. These conditions, added
to the well known uncertainties of any work at considerable depths
below the surface of the ground, have made contractors reluctant
to offer bids for public work, except at prices far beyond any which
would have been thought extravagant a few months ago.
With all the evident disadvantages of the method of work upon
a percentage basis, it seems to be at present the more direct path
to a satisfactory and mutually fair result than any other that occurs
to us.
By chapter 56 of the Resolves of the year 1917 the chairman of
the Metropolitan Water and Sewerage Board, the Commissioner of
Health of the State Department of Health, and the Commissoner
of Public Works of the city of Boston, acting jointly, were author-
ized and directed to make an investigation relative to the sewage
discharged into Boston Harbor and report the results with such
recommendations as they might deem expedient to the General
Court. This report has been made. The conclusions of that board
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do not indicate that any part of such nuisances as may exist in
Boston Harbor are the results of the discharge of sewage from the
Metropolitan sewerage outlets.
The joint board, in concluding its report, points out that the
State Department of Health is still engaged upon investigations
upon the recovery of valuable products from sewage. These studies
have been carried on for many years by the Massachusetts health
authorities and have attracted the attention of all those w r hose
opinions have value on this very important subject.
(2) North Metropolitan Sewerage System — Maintenance.
The cost of the maintenance and operation of the North Metro-
politan System during the past year was $196,469.71.
Sewers and Pumping Stations.
The Metropolitan sewers in the North Metropolitan System now
extend a distance of 63.942 miles, and the local sewers which are
connected with the Metropolitan sewers have a further length of
769.92 miles, involving 84,182 connections.
The sewage of the North Metropolitan District flows at first by
gravity, but before being finally disposed of is lifted at different
points by pumping and is finally discharged into the harbor from
an outfall off Deer Island.
The daily average amount of sewage discharged into the harbor
was 64,600,000 gallons, a daily average for each person contributing
sewage of 114 gallons. The decrease in the total amount of sewage
discharged was 1,700,000 gallons per day less than the discharge of
the preceding year. The maximum rate of discharge in any one
day was 161,100,000 gallons.
The pumping stations operated for the North Metropolitan Sew-
erage System are as follows : —
Number
of
Engines.
Contract
Capacity per
Day
(Gallons).
Lift
(Feet).
Deer Island station (Boston Harbor), ....
East Boston station, ........
Charlestown station,
Alewife Brook station (Somerville), .....
4
4
3
3
235,000,000
235,000,000
104,000,000
22,000,000
19
19
13
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There were purchased for the operation of the pumping stations
6,399 tons of bituminous coal and 196 tons of anthracite screenings,
the average prices of which, at the different stations, varied from
$6.58 to $10.29 per gross ton for the bituminous coal and from
$5.70 to $6.72 for the screenings, delivered in the bins.
The amount expended for the stations was $131,278.30. The
average cost per million gallons of sewage lifted per foot at the
several stations was $0,159, an increase of 21 per cent, over the cost
last year.
(3) South Metropolitan Sewerage System — Construction.
The amount expended for construction on account of the South
Metropolitan System during the past year was $244,746.05.
The town of Wellesley was admitted to the South Metropolitan
Sewerage District by chapter 343 of the Acts of 1914, and the act
was accepted by the town in March, 1915.
The original estimate for the construction of the Wellesley exten-
sion, High-level sewer, of $350,000, was made by the State Board
of Health, and was based on a report submitted by an engineer
called in by that department to make a survey and estimate. Two
lines were considered by the Board of Health. The estimate was
made on the shorter line which came through the location of the
Brookline Water Works fields. This line was to connect with the
existing Neponset Valley sewer of the High-level System at a point
where the sewer has a capacity suitable only for the original district
for which it was built.
Because of the small size of this existing Metropolitan sewer and
the fact that this line extended across the Brookline Water Works
fields and would interfere with this important supply, and also be-
cause of the fact that there is a rapidly growing portion of Dedham
in the vicinity of Bridge Street which is a part of the Metropolitan
District and has no possible means of reaching the Metropolitan
System excepting by construction work by the Metropolitan Water
and Sewerage Board, it was decided to* use the alternate line pro-
posed by the State Board of Health. This is somewhat longer but
reaches the existing Metropolitan sewer at a point where the latter
is of increased size and at the same time furnishes a means of outlet
for the above-named portion of Dedham and obviates the difficulties
in connection with our construction in the fields of the Brookline
Water Works.
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The Board has also designed a sewer of considerably larger
capacity than was anticipated by the State Board of Health, feeling
that the same is justified by the future demands of the District.
The line adopted has a length of about 40,000 feet almost wholly
through private lands. The natural physical conditions in this part
of the Charles River valley make sewer construction very expensive.
This is occasioned by the large amount of rock encountered and by
fine sands and other material in which it is expensive to construct
and by the remoteness of the location.
Because of the above-stated conditions, namely, insufficiency of
the original appropriation, not based on estimates made by the
Metropolitan Water and Sewerage Board, and the necessary changes
in the location to fit the needs of the District, the bad material
encountered and, above all, the abnormal conditions of the market
in regard to labor and supplies, an additional appropriation of
$325,000 was made by the Legislature of 1917. It is not probable
that the remainder of this work, consisting of three sections of the
nine into which the whole line was divided, can be completed within
the appropriation. The contractor for one of the sections under-
taken in the year 1917 found difficulties in carrying out his contract
so serious that he felt obliged to abandon the work before any
permanent construction of the sewer had been effected. The Board
then took over the work under the oversight of a sewer builder of
much experience and the undertaking has been successfully carried
on under great difficulties and is now substantially completed, but
at a very large increase in expense over the contract price.
Borings along the line of the proposed sewer were made in the
usual manner and samples of the materials found in the borings
were exhibited to those who proposed to bid for the work, but even
experienced contractors misjudged the probable behavior of these
materials and the cost of the work has far outrun the estimates.
An additional appropriation of $200,000 has been asked for the
completion of this sewer of which more than two-thirds has been
finished, but even now the .Board makes any estimate of probable
cost with much hesitation.
The Board acquired by taking, during the year, easements in 1.2
acres of land in Dedham, for the construction of the Weliesley
extension of the High-level sewer.
No. 57.]
AND SEWERAGE BOARD.
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(4) South Metropolitan Sewerage System — Maintenance.
The entire cost of maintenance of the South Metropolitan System
during the past year was $131,929.28.
Sewers and Pumping Stations.
The Metropolitan sewers in the South Metropolitan System,
which comprise the old Charles River valley sewer and Neponset
River valley sewer, as well as the new High-level sewer and exten-
sions, have a total length of 49.069 miles, and with these are con-
nected local sewers having a length of 653.17 miles, involving 45,149
connections.
The pumping stations operated for the South Metropolitan Sewer-
age System are as follows : —
Number
of
Engines.
Contract
Capacity per
Day
(Gallons).
Lift
(Feet).
Ward Street station (Roxbury District), ....
Quincy station, . . . . . . .
Quincy sewerage lifting station, . . . .
2
3
2
100,000,000
18,000,000
3,000,000
45
28
20
The sewage of two small areas in Dorchester and Milton, included
in the Neponset River valley system, which are too low for sewage
to be delivered into the High-level sewer by gravity, is, under an
arrangement with the city of Boston, disposed of through the Boston
Main Drainage Works at Moon Island. By this arrangement the
Board is relieved from the expense of providing extra pumping
facilities.
A large part of the sewage of the South District is lifted into
the High-level sewer at the Ward Street pumping station in Rox-
bury. Most of the sewage of the city of Quincy is pumped into
the High-level sewer at Greenleaf Street near the Quincy pumping
station. All of the sewage of the South District is screened at the
Nut Island screen-house for the purpose of intercepting solid matter,
and is thence discharged at the bottom of the harbor from the out-
falls about a mile off the island.
The daily average amount of sewage thus discharged was 60,200,-
000 gallons, and the largest rate of discharge in a single day was
during a heavy storm, when the amount reached 162,000,000 gal-
lons. The decrease in the daily average from last year was 1,800,000
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gallons. The daily average discharge of sewage for each individual
contributing sewage in the district was 176 gallons.
There were 2,890 gross tons of bituminous coal and 50 tons of
anthracite screenings purchased at the two pumping stations and
the Nut Island screen-house, the average prices of which varied from
$6.90 to $10.60 per gross ton for the bituminous coal delivered in the
bins. The screenings were purchased for $6.72 per ton.
The total amount expended for the operation of the stations was
$72,876.51.
VII. SEWERAGE WORKS — FINANCIAL STATEMENT.
The financial abstract of the receipts, expenditures, disbursements,
assets and liabilities of the Metropolitan Water and Sewerage Board
for the fiscal year of the Commonwealth ending with November
30, 1917, was, as stated in connection with the Water Works, pre-
sented to the General Court in January, in accordance with the
requirements of chapter 235 of the Acts of the year 1906, and a
copy of this financial abstract is in part printed as Appendix No. 5.
The following statement of its financial doings, in relation to the
Metropolitan Sewerage Works, for the calendar year 1917 is here-
with presented, in accordance with the provisions of the act of 1906,
as a part of the annual report of the Board.
(1) Metropolitan Sewerage Loans, Receipts and Payments.
The loans authorized for the construction of the Metropolitan
Sewerage Works, the receipts which are added to the proceeds of
these loans, the expenditures for construction, and the balances
available on January 1, 1918, have been as follows: —
North Metropolitan System.
Loans authorized under various acts to January 1, 1918, for the
construction of the North Metropolitan System and the
various extensions, $7,521,365 73
Receipts from sales of real estate and from miscellaneous sources
which are placed to the credit of the North Metropolitan
System : —
For the year ending December 31, 1917, . . $271 38
For the period prior to January 1, 1917, . . 85^,718 11
85,989 49
$7,598,355 22
Amount carried forward, $7,598,355 22
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Amount brought forward, $7,598,355 22
Amount approved for payment by the Board x out of the Metro-
politan Sewerage Loan Fund, North System : —
For the year ending December 31, 1917, .. . $36,585 93
For the period prior to January 1, 1917, . . 7,256,702 34
7,293,288 27
Balance, North Metropolitan System, January 1, 1918, . $305,066 95
South Metropolitan System.
Loans authorized under the various acts, prior to 1917, applied to
the construction of the Charles River valley sewer, Neponset
valley sewer, High-level sewer and extensions, constituting
the South Metropolitan System, $9,262,046 27
Loan authorized under General Acts of 1917, chapter 285 (for
completing the extension of the Metropolitan Sewer to the
Town of Wellesley), 325,00000
Receipts from pumping, sales of real estate and from miscella-
neous sources, which are placed to the credit of the South
Metropolitan System : —
For the year ending December 31, 1917, . . $83 88
For the period prior to January 1, 1917, . . 19,300 45
19,384 33
$9,606,430 60
Amount approved by the Board for payment out of the Met-
ropolitan Sewerage Loan Fund, South System : —
On account of the Charles River valley sewer, . $800,046 27
On account of the Neponset valley sewer, . . 911,53146
On account of the High-level sewer and exten-
sions, including Wellesley extension: —
For the year ending December
31, 1917, . . ... . $244,746 05
For the period prior to January
1, 1917, . . . . . 7,407,403 85
7,652,149 90
9,363,727 63
Balance, South Metropolitan System, January 1, 1918, . $242,702 97
1 The word "Board" refers to the Metropolitan Sewerage Commission and the Metropolitan Water
and Sewerage Board.
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(2) Total Sewerage Debt, December 31, 1917.
North Metropolitan System.
Bonds issued by the Treasurer of the Commonwealth : —
Sinking fund bonds (3 and 3£ per cent.), $6,563,000 00
Serial bonds (3| and 4 per cent.), 925,500 00
•
Total bond issue to December 31, 1917, $7,488,500 00
Serial bonds paid prior to January 1, 1917, . . $48,500 00
Serial bonds paid in 1917, 26,500 00
75,000 00
Total bond issue outstanding December 31, 1917, . . . $7,413,500 00
Gross Sewerage Debt, $7,413,500 00
Sinking fund December 31, 1917, 2,475,165 88
Net Sewerage Debt December 31, 1917, $4,938,334 12
A net increase for the year of $67,389.87.
South Metropolitan System.
Bonds issued by the Treasurer of the Commonwealth : —
Sinking fund bonds (3 and 3§ per cent.), $8,877,912 00
Serial bonds (4 per cent.), 395,000 00
Total bond issue to December 31, 1917, $9,272,912 00
Serial bonds paid prior to January 1, 1917, . . $10,000 00
Serial bonds paid in 1917, 11,000 00
21,000 00
Total bond issue outstanding December 31, 1917, . . . $9,251,912 00
Gross Sewerage Debt, $9,251,912 00
Sinking fund December 31, 1917, 1,450,626 87
Net Sewerage Debt December 31, 1917, $7,801,285 13
A decrease for the year of $101,025.35.
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AND SEWERAGE BOARD.
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(3) Noeth and South Metropolitan Loan and Sinking Funds,
December 31, 1917.
Loi
INS.
Bonds issued
(Sinking Fund).
Bonds issued
(Seeial Bonds).
Sinking
Fund.
Yeah.
North
System.
South
System.
North
System.
South
System.
North
System.
South
System.
North and
South
Systems.
1889, .
$5,000,000 00
-
-
-
■ -
-
-
1890,
-
-
$2,200,000
$800,000
-
-
-
1891,
-
-
368,000
-
-
-
-
1892,
-
-
1,053,000
-
-
-
-
1893,
-
-
579,000
-
-
-
-
1894,
500,000 00
-
500,000
-
-
-
-
1895,
300,000 00
$500,000 00
300,000
300,000
-
-
-
1896,
30,000 00
-
30,000
200,000
-
-
-
1897,
85,000 00
300,000 00
80,000
300,000
-
-
-
1898,
215,000 00
35,000 00
220,000
35,000
-
-
-
1899,
-
4,625,000 00
-
1,025,000
-
-
$361,416 59
1900,
265,000 00
10,912 00i
265,000
10,912
-
-
454,520 57
1901,
-
40,000 00
-
2,040,000
-
-
545,668 26
1902,
-
-
-
864,000
-
-
636,084 04
1903,
500,000 00
1,000,000 00
500,000
1,736,000
-
-
754,690 41
1904,
-
392,000 00
-
392,000
-
-
878,557 12
1905,
-
-
-
-
-
-
1,008,724 95
1905,
55,000 00
1,175,000 00
55,000
175,000
-
-
1,146,998 68
1907,
-
-
-
300,000
-
1,306,850 30
1908,
413,000 00
-
-
700,000
-
-
1,492,418 98
1909,
-
-
300,000
-
-
-
1,673,784 40
1910,
56,000 00
-
113,000
-
-
-
1,931,741 89
1911,
6,000 00
-
-
-
-
-
2,184,674 98
1912,
378,000 00
-
-
-
$62,000
-
2,458,541 20
1913,
-
-
. -
-
378,000
-
2,749,337 90
1914,
130,500 00
350,000 00
-
-
-
-
3,011,512 44
1915,
83,000 00
5,000 00
-
-
130,500
-
3,290,979 46
1916,
285,000 00
40,000 00
-
-
70,000
$355,000
3,604,657 27
1917,
-
325,000 00
-
-
285,000
40,000
3,925,792 75
$8,301,500 002
$8,797,912 00
-
-
-
-
-
789,134 27
789,134 27
-
-
-
-
-
$7,512,365 73
$9,587,046 27
$6,563,000
$8,877,912
$925,500
$395,000
-
1 The sum of $10,912 was appropriated to reimburse the town of Watertown for the expense of con-
structing the Watertown siphon.
2 Of this amount $789,134.27 was expended for the construction of the Charles River valley sewer, which
is now included in the South Metropolitan System.
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(4) Annual Appropriations, Receipts and Expenditures.
The annual appropriations for the maintenance of the Metropoli-
tan Sewerage Works, the receipts of the Board which are added to
the appropriations for maintenance, and the expenditures for main-
tenance for the year ending December 31, 1917, were as follows: —
North Metropolitan System.
Appropriations as follows : —
Chapter 99, Special Acts of 1917, .
Chapter 322, Special Acts of 1917,
Chapter 343, General Acts of 1917,
Chapter 374, Special Acts of 1917,
Receipts from pumping and from other sources,
Amount approved by the Board for payment,
Balance, January 1, 1918, . . . .
South Metropolitan System ,
Appropriations as follows : —
Chapter 100, Special Acts of 1917,
Chapter 343, General Acts of 1917,
Chapter 374, Special Acts of 1917,
Receipts from pumping and from other sources,
Amount approved by the Board for payment,
Balance, January 1, 1918,
$195,000 00
1,000 00
2,500 00
10,500 00
250 41
$209,250 41
196,469 71
$12,780 70
$125,000 00
2,500 00
6,500 00
301 28
$134,301 28
131,929 28
$2,372 00
(5) Sewer Assessments, 1917.
The following sewer assessments were made by the Treasurer of
the Commonwealth upon the various municipalities: —
North Metropolitan Sewerage System.
Sinking fund requirements, .
Serial bonds,
Interest,
Maintenance: —
Appropriated by Legislature, $209,000 00
Less balance on hand, 16,027 22
Total North Metropolitan sewerage assessment,
$114,807 52
21,606 00
227,005 76
192,972 78
$556,392 06
No. 57.]
AND SEWERAGE BOARD.
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South Metropolitan Sewerage System.
Sinking fund requirements, $71,331 29
Serial bonds, 9,389 20
Interest, 309,228 23
Maintenance: —
Appropriated by Legislature, $134,000 00
Less balance on hand, 4,845 36
129,154 64
Total South Metropolitan sewerage assessment, . . . $519,103 36
In accordance with the provisions of chapter 369, Acts of 1906,
the proportion to be paid by each city and town to meet the interest
and sinking fund requirements for each year is based upon their
respective taxable valuations, and to meet the cost of maintenance
and operation upon their respective populations.
The divisions of the assessments for 1917 were as follows: —
North Metropolitan Sewerage System.
Cities and Towns.
Assessment.
Cities and Towns.
Assessment.
Boston, . . . .
Cambridge,
$16,274 29
10,493 59
86,378 26
119,189 91
32,918 90
32,246 34
5,617 61
43,253 88
29,056 20
17,657 22
Revere
Somerville
Wakefield,
Winchester,
Total,
$5,051 52
21,904 50
74,814 24
6,121 29
11,819 32
14,946 29
14,162 24
14,486 46
Melrose,
$556,392 06
1 Reading is also assessed $7,000 for sinking fund requirements in accordance with section 5, chapter
159, General Acts of 1916.
South Metropolitan Sewerage System.
Cities and Towns.
Assessment.
CrriES and Towns.
Assessment.
$235,799 31
98,199 48
11,858 16
21,585 77
62,161 76
Total,
$35,572 23
26,182 68
16,825 40
10,918 57
$519,103 36
1 Wellesley is also assessed $6,775.24 for sinking fund requirements in accordance with section 5, chapter
343, Acts of 1914.
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(6) Expenditures for the Different Works.
The following is a summary of the expenditures made in the vari-
ous operations for the different works : —
Construction and Acquisition of Works.
For the Year ending
December 31, 1917.
North Metropolitan System.
North System, enlargement: —
Administration,
Deer Island Outfall extension, ....
Removal of old Maiden River siphon, .
Reading extension,
Amount charged from beginning of work to January 1, 1917,
Total for North Metropolitan System to January 1, 1918,
South Metropolitan System.
High-level sewer extensions: —
Administration,
Relief Outfall, Section 43
Wellesley extension: —
Section 98,
Section 99,
Section 100
Section 101,
Section 102,
Section 103,
Section 104,
Section 105,
Section 106,
Real estate settlements,
Legal, conveyancing and expert,
Payments under Industrial Accident Law and special
benefit appropriations,
Additions to Ward Street pumping station plant, .
Amount charged from beginning of work to January 1, 1917,
Total for South Metropolitan System to January 1, 1918,
Total for construction, both systems, .
$2,425 54
28,561 87
1,052 86
4,545 66
$36,585 93
7,256,702 34
$7,293,288 27
$145,249 20
2,292 18
1,721 71
2,529 74
52,178 05
6,934 98
11,980 70
114 14
584 16
4,000 00
326 02
98 00
$3,620 85
200 00
228,008 88
12,916 32
$244,746 05
9,118,981-58
$9,363,727 63
$16,657,015 90
Maintenance and Operation.
For the Year ending
December 31, 1917.
North Metropolitan System,
South Metropolitan System,
Total for maintenance, both systems,
$196,469 71
131,929 28
$328,398 99
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AND SEWERAGE BOARD.
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(7) Detailed Financial Statement.
The Board herewith presents, in accordance with the Metropolitan
Sewerage acts, an abstract of the expenditures and disbursements, re-
ceipts, assets and liabilities for the year ending December 31, 1917: —
(a) Expenditures and Disbursements.
General Character op Expenditures.
For the Year ending
December 31, 1917.
Construction of Works and Acquisition by Purchase or Taking.
North System Enlargement.
Administration: —
Commissioners, . .
Secretary,
Clerks and stenographers,
Stationery, printing,and office supplies,
Telephone, lighting, heating, water and care of building, .
Rent and taxes, main office,
Engineering: —
Chief engineer, .
Engineering assistants,
Inspectors, . . "•• . . .
Traveling expenses,
Stationery, printing and office supplies
Engineering and drafting instruments and tools,
Engineering and drafting supplies, . . . .
Telephone, lighting, heating, water and care of building, ....
Rent and taxes,
Miscellaneous expenses,
Tools, machinery and appliances, r
Brick, cement, lumber and other field supplies and expenses,
Contracts: —
George M. Bryne, Contract 131, for constructing Section 1A of the Deer
Island Temporary Outfall sewer extension,
Roy H. Beattie Inc., Contract 135, for constructing Section 1 of the Deer
Island Outfall sewer extension in Boston Harbor,
Real estate: —
Legal, conveyancing and expert,
Total for North Metropolitan System,
$1,166 67
375 00
508 16
138 33
136 41
100 97
$625 01
6,675 84
1,128 81
141 08
110 22
6 70
92 38
409 26
302 93
325 88
$46 55
365 83
$7,167 49
16,752 41
$10 00
$2,425 54
9,818 11
412
23,919 90
10 00
$36,585 93
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General Character of Expenditures.
For the Year ending
December 31, 1917.
South Metropolitan System.
Administration: - High-level Sewer Extensions.
Commissioners, .
Secretary,
Clerks and stenographers,
Stationery, printing and office supplies,
Telephone, lighting, heating, water and care of building
Repairs of building
Rent and taxes, main office
Miscellaneous expenses
Engineering: —
Chief engineer,
Engineering assistants
Inspectors
Traveling expenses,
Engineering and drafting instruments and tools,
Stationery, printing and office supplies,
Engineering and drafting supplies,
Telephone, lighting, heating, water and care of building, .
Repairs of building,
Rent and taxes, main office,
Miscellaneous expenses,
Advertising,
Labor and teaming,
Tools, machinery and appliances,
Brick, cement, lumber and other field supplies and expenses, • .
Contracts: —
Bay State Dredging and Contracting Co., Contract 133, for constructing
Section 104 of the High-level sewer (Wellesley extension) in Needham,
Bruno & Petitti, Contract 134, for constructing Section 103 of the High-level
sewer (Wellesley extension) in Needham, i
Bruno & Petitti, Contract 143, for constructing Section 102 of the High-level
sewer (Wellesley extension) in Needham,
George M. Bryne, under agreement dated October 23, 1916, for constructing
Section 98 of the High-level sewer (Wellesley extension) in West Rox-
bury and Dedham
George M. Bryne, under agreement dated October 6, 1917, for constructing
Section 99 (in part) of the High-level sewer (Wellesley extension) in
Dedham,
D. M. Dillon Steam Boiler Works, Contract 136, for furnishing two vertical
fire tube boilers for the Ward Street pumping station of the South
Metropolitan Sewerage System in Roxbury,
W. H. Ellis & Son Co., Contract 120, for constructing part of Section 43,
Relief Outfall line of the High-level sewer in Boston Harbor,
Payments under Industrial Accident Law and special benefit appropriations,
Real estate : —
Legal, conveyancing and expert
Settlements,
Total for South Metropolitan System,
$1,166 66
375 00
1,435 62
324 30
173 81
25
144 21
1 00
$416 67
6,705 19
8,176 76
762 51
18 95
187 06
122 76
521 53
75
432 75
618 52
$66 40
4,575 43
4,550 43
5,773 76
$10,784 99
5,501 25
42,982 61
133,459 44
1,683 42
1,620 85
17,963 45
14,966 02
9,160 00
200 00
203,771 71
98 00
4,326 02
$98 00
$326 02
4,000 00
$244,746 05
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AND SEWERAGE BOARD.
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General Character of Expenditures.
For the Year ending
December 31, 1917.
Maintenance and Operation op Works
North Metropolitan System.
Administration: —
Commissioners
Secretary and assistants,
Rent, . .
Heating, lighting and care of building,
Repairs of building, .
Postage,
Printing, stationery and office supplies,
Telephones, .
Miscellaneous expenses,
General supervision: —
Chief engineer and assistants
Rent,
Heating, lighting and care of building,
Repairs of building, . . . . .
Printing, stationery and office supplies,
Telephones,
Miscellaneous expenses, .......
Deer Island pumping station: —
Labor .
Fuel,
Oil and waste,
Water,
Packing, . .
Repairs and renewals,
Telephones,
General supplies,
Miscellaneous supplies and expenses, . . .- .
East Boston pumping station: —
Labor,
Fuel,
Oil and waste,
Water, . . .
Packing, - .
Repairs and renewals,
Telephones,
General supplies,
Miscellaneous supplies and expenses, ....
Charlestown pumping station: —
Labor, .
Fuel,
Oil and waste,
Water, . . . • . . ...
Packing,
Repairs and renewals, . ....
Amounts carried forward,
$2,708 33
2,569 05
259 65
288 75
5 50
60 00
430 64
42 43
30 05
5,088 29
778 95
866 36
16 50
87 01
127 32
- 6 50
$21,372 09
17,517 71
431 23
1,657 20
98 34
973 09
25 75
632 01
742 41
$21,991 56
19,453 35
705 04
1,570 80
93 27
1,053 69
3 25
336 69
244 33
$18,064 14
8,003 08
213 62
957 12
47 43
310 59
5,394 40
7,970 93
43,449 83
45,451 98
$27,595 98 $103,267 14
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General Character of Expenditures.
For the Year ending
December 31, 1917.
Amounts brought forward,
North Metropolitan System — Con.
Charlestown pumping station — Con.
Telephones,
General supplies,
Miscellaneous supplies and expenses,
Alewife Brook pumping station: —
Labor,
Fuel
Oil and waste,
Water,
Packing,
Repairs and renewals,
Telephones,
General supplies,
Miscellaneous supplies and expenses,
Sewer lines, buildings and grounds: —
Engineering assistants,
Labor,
Brick, cement and lime,
Castings, ironwork and metals,
Freight, express and teaming,
Fuel and lighting,
Jobbing and repairing,
Lumber,
Machinery, tools and appliances,
Paints and oils,
Rubber and oiled goods,
Telephones,
Traveling expenses,
General supplies,
Miscellaneous expenses,
Horses, vehicles and stable account,
Payments under Industrial Accident Law and special benefit appropriations,
Investigation Sucker Brook Sewer (ch. 322, Acts of 1917), .
Total for North Metropolitan System
South Metropolitan System.
Administration: —
Commissioners,
Secretary and assistants,
Rent, •
Heating, lighting and care of building,
Repairs of building,
Postage,
Printing, stationery and office supplies,
Amount carried forward, . . .
$27,595 98 $103,267 14
47 87
375 81
181 96
28,201 62
$9,057 81
4,283 61
172 18
175 08
21 31
299 89
28 06
71 61
65 32
14,174 87
$2,100 00
34,454 91
753 14
607 52
10 00
64 10
154 38
1,155 09
258 90
421 82
318 33
37 50
854 29
1,013 21
43 65
42,246 84
4,437 48
3,143 00
998 76
$196,469 71
$1,541 67
2,331 23
187 52
199 94
5 50
50 00
312 97
$4,628 83
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AND SEWERAGE BOARD.
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General Character of Expenditures.
For the Year ending
December 31, 1917.
Amount brought forward
South Metropolitan System — Con.
Administration — Con.
Telephones,
Traveling expenses,
Miscellaneous expenses
General supervision: —
Chief engineer and assistants, ....
Rent
Heating, lighting and care of building,
Repairs of building,
Printing, stationery and office supplies,
Postage,
Telephones,
Traveling expenses
Miscellaneous expenses, . " .
Ward Street pumping station: —
Labor,
Fuel
Oil and waste,
Water,
Packing, . . .
Repairs and renewals, . .
Telephones,
General supplies,
Miscellaneous supplies and expenses, .
Quincy pumping station: —
Labor,
Fuel,
Oil and waster
Water, . . . ...
Packing,
Repairs and renewals,
Telephones,
General supplies,
Miscellaneous supplies and expenses, .
Nut Island screen-house: —
Labor,
Fuel
Oil and waste,
Water,
Packing,
Repairs and renewals,
Telephones,
General supplies,
Miscellaneous supplies and expenses, .
Amount carried forward, . . .
$4,628 83
20 60
15 25
27 35
$5,133 36
562 58
599 94
16 50
279 73
10 00
61 83
50 00
1 25
$24,568 93
14,670 33
315 45
1,536 00
345 02
1,973 86
, 45 31
1,289 72
164 91
59,112 41
2,172 56
76 62
295 85
25 47
137 90
27 37
394 72
55 39
$9,237 35
4,908 03
125 90
511 82
26 75
173 50
33 44
583 79
68 11
$4,692 03
6,715 19
44,909 53
12,298 29
15,668 69
$84,283 73
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General Character of Expenditures.
For the Year ending
December 31 1917.
Amount brought forward,
South Metropolitan System — Con.
Sewer lines, buildings and grounds: —
Engineering assistants
Labor,
Automobiles,
Brick, cement and lime,
Castings, ironwork and metals, ....
Fuel and lighting,
Freight, express and teaming, ....
Jobbing and repairing,
Lumber,
Machinery, tools and appliances, ....
Paints and oils,
Rubber and oiled goods
Sand, gravel and stone,
Telephones, . .
Traveling expenses, ..;...
General supplies,
Miscellaneous expenses,
City of Boston, for pumping,
Horses, vehicles and stable account,
Total for South Metropolitan System,
$84,283 73
$3,925 00
26,793 00
556 94
759 60
252 22
403 05
90 00
15 10
1,934 25
141 06
219 71
162 48
186 92
24 58
636 73
365 11
553 24
37,018 99
7,407 52
3,219 04
$131,929 28
(b) Receipts.
The receipts from the sales of property, from rents and from other
sources, have been credited as follows : —
Account.
For the
Year ending
December 31,
1917.
Construction: —
North Metropolitan System,
South Metropolitan System,
Maintenance: —
North Metropolitan System
South Metropolitan System,
Sinking fund: —
North Metropolitan System,
South Metropolitan System,
Interest fund: —
North Metropolitan System
South Metropolitan System,
Amount credited from beginning of work to January 1, 1917,
Total receipts to January 1, 1918, ....
$271 38
83 88
250 41
301 28
116 65
8,045 00
29 32
31 78
$9,129 70
129,649 10
$138,778 80
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AND SEWERAGE BOARD.
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(c) Assets.
The following is an abstract of the assets of the Sewerage Works,
a complete schedule of which is kept on file in the office of the
Board : —
Office furniture, fixtures and supplies; engineering and scientific instruments
and supplies; horses, vehicles, field machinery, etc.; machinery, tools and
other appliances and supplies; completed works, real estate connected there-
with.
(d) Liabilities.
There are bills for current expenses which have not yet been
received.
Amounts on Monthly Estimates, not due until Completion of Contracts or until
Claims are settled.
Name.
Work.
Amount.
High-level sewer extensions : — .
Timothy J. O'Connell, .
Contract 57, Section 82, in part, ....
$60 00
Bruno & Petitti, ....
Contract 143, Section 102, Wellesley extension,
9,912 21
North System enlargement: —
Roy H. Beattie, Inc.,
Contract 135, Section 1, Deer Island Outfall sewer
extension.
6,581 09
Settlements are pending with the following parties for easements
taken in lands owned by them : —
F. Murray Forbes, Hugh D. Scott, Charles H. Harmon, Clifford
M. Locke, Martha W. Burrage, Needham Tire Co., Anne Williams,
John Wells Farley, I. Tucker Burr, Jr., Edward and Catherine
Bingham, Hannah Bingham, Katherine H. Rooney, Mary A. Read,
J. Austin Amory, Hannah E. Pond, Richard G. Wadsworth, Charles
Philip Beebe, John T. Morse, Jr., Mary A. Sidney, Frank D. Chase,
Devisees of Anna E. Chase, Stephen M. Weld.
VIII. RECOMMENDATIONS FOR LEGISLATION.
In the abstract of the annual report for the year 1917 the Board
made the following statement and recommendations : —
On account of the high price of labor and materials, resulting from the un-
usual business conditions that have prevailed during the past year, a large
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portion of the construction work already authorized has been deferred with the
hope of carrying out the projects under more favorable conditions.
There is a balance of $4,000 now remaining from the appropriation of $600,-
000 authorized by chapter 694 of the Acts of 1912 for the purchase of certain
property from the City of Boston; and in view of the uncertainty regarding the
cost of construction work at the present time and the possibility that new ex-
penditures may be required for the East Boston service, the Board recommends
that authority be given to use this balance for such new expenditures and for
the increased cost of constructing a line for the transmission of electricity be-
tween the power station at the Wachusett Dam in Clinton and the power station
at the Sudbury Dam in Southborough; to relocate and connect meters for the
measuring of water supplied through the low service to the Metropolitan Water
District; to construct a 12-inch pipe line in Poplar Street, West Roxbury, and
under the Neponset River; and to install a new pumping engine at the Arlington
pumping station, authorized under chapter 172 of the General Acts of the year
1916, due to the present increase in cost of labor and materials.
The original estimate for the construction of the Wellesley extension, High-
level sewer, of $350,000, was made by the State Board of Health, and was based
on a report submitted by an engineer called in by that department to make a
survey and estimate. Two lines were considered by the Board of Health. The
estimate was made on the shorter line which came through the location of the
Brookline Water Works fields. This line was to connect with the existing
Neponset Valley sewer of the High-level System at a point where the sewer has
a capacity suitable only for the original district for which it was built.
Because of the small size of this existing metropolitan sewer and the fact
that this line extended across the Brookline Water Works fields and would in-
terfere with this important supply, and also because of the fact that there is a
rapidly growing portion of Dedham in the vicinity of Bridge Street, which is
a part of the Metropolitan District and has no possible means of reaching the
metropolitan system except by construction work by the Metropolitan Water
and Sewerage Board, it was decided to use the alternate line proposed by the
State Board of Health. This is somewhat longer but reaches the existing
metropolitan sewer at a point where the latter is of increased size and at the
same time furnishes a means of outlet for the above-named portion of Dedham
and obviates the difficulties in connection with our construction in the fields
of the Brookline Water Works.
The Board has also designed a sewer of considerably larger capacity than was
anticipated by the State Board of Health, feeling that the same is justified by
the future demands of the District.
The line adopted has a length of about 40,000 feet, almost wholly through
private lands. It has been divided into sections numbered from 98 to 106,
inclusive. At the present time sections 102, 103, 104, 105 and 106 are wholly
completed. Section 98 is under construction and nearly' completed.
The natural physical conditions of this part of the Charles River valley make
sewer construction very expensive. This is occasioned by the large amount of
rock encountered and by fine sands and other material in which it is expensive
to construct and by the remoteness of the location.
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Because of the above-stated conditions, namely, insufficiency of the original
appropriation, not based on estimates made by the Metropolitan Water and
Sewerage Board, and the necessary changes in the location to fit the needs of
the District, the bad material encountered and, above all, the abnormal con-
ditions of the market in regard to labor and supplies, it is necessary that an
additional appropriation be asked for to complete the work.
Following is the cost of the completed sections with an estimate of the cost
of the remaining ones : —
Section.
Cost.
Length (Feet).
f 80 per cent, completed, .
98 \
[ 20 per cent, to be completed,
99,
100,
101,
102,
103,
104,
105,
106,
Administration, land damages and engineering to date,
Total cost accrued and estimated, . .
$157,000
40,0001
149,0001
110,0001
80,000i
81,000
45,900
74,000
44,000
43,600
36,000
$860,500
3,350
3,300
3,700
3,950
6,851
5,916
4,300
4,425
4,355
40,147
i Estimated.
showing that the probable cost of construction work on this line will amount to
$860,500, including engineering and incidentals. To this must be added the
cost of land damage and any settlements of outstanding claims by contractors.
The Board, therefore, asks for an additional appropriation of $200,000.
The Legislature of 1916 appropriated $285,000 for the purpose of connecting
the town of Reading with the North Metropolitan Sewerage System. During
the past year estimates were obtained from trustworthy contractors of the
expense of constructing a portion of this line. These estimates made it evident
that under present conditions the amount of $285,000 appropriated by the
Legislature for this purpose would be entirely insufficient to complete the work.
An estimate has recently been made by a trustworthy contractor of the amount
of money necessary to construct the whole of this sewer. This estimate is in
round numbers $700,000. In the opinion of the Board it is not probable that
any contractor of sufficient ability to complete the work will be willing to under-
take it at a lower price. The Board, therefore, if the Legislature deems it wise
to enter upon this work, asks for an additional appropriation of $415,000. In
presenting this estimate the Board desires to add the expression of its opinion
that any estimate made at this time may prove deceptive.
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The detailed reports of the Chief Engineer of the Water Works
and of the Chief Engineer of the Sewerage Works, with various
tables and statistics, are herewith presented.
Respectfully submitted,
henry p. walcott,
edward a. Mclaughlin,
thomas e. dwyer,
Metropolitan Water and Sewerage Board.
Boston, February 27, 1918.
No. 57.]
AND SEWERAGE BOARD.
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EEPOET OF CHIEF ENGINEER OF WATER WORKS.
To the Metropolitan Water and Sewerage Board.
Gentlemen: — I have the honor to submit a report of the work
done in connection with the construction, maintenance and operation
of the Metropolitan Water Works for the year ended December 31,
1917.
Organization.
The organization of the force employed under the direction of
the Chief Engineer has remained the same as during the previous
year. The principal assistants are as follows : —
John L. Howard, .
Elliot R. B. Allardice,
Charles E. Haberstroh,
Samuel E„ Killam, .
Arthur E. O'Neil, .
Alfred 0. Doane, .
William W. Locke,
Clifford Foss, .
Benjamin F. Hancox,
James W. Killam, .
William E. Whittaker,
Charles E. Livermore,
Assistant to the Chief Engineer.
Superintendent of Wachusett Department.
Superintendent of Sudbury Department.
Superintendent of Distribution Pipe Lines and
Reservoirs.
Superintendent of Distribution Pumping Sta-
tions.
Division Engineer, in charge of Mechanical
Engineering and Inspection Work.
Sanitary Inspector, in charge of Sanitary In-
spection of Watersheds.
Assistant Engineer, in charge of Distribution
Civil Engineering.
Head Draftsman, in charge of Drafting Force.
Assistant Engineer, in charge of Coal and Oil
Laboratory and compilation of Pumping
Statistics.
Office Assistant, in charge of General Office and
compilation of Water Supply Statistics.
Biologist, in charge of Microscopical and
Bacteriological Examinations of the Water
Supply.
Including these principal assistants the number of supervising,
engineering and clerical employees was 47 at the beginning of the
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year. As a result of the unusual demands for engineers, clerks
and stenographers, 15 experienced employees of this class resigned
during the year to accept positions with increased compensation
elsewhere, and one enlisted in the United States Navy. On account
of the difficulty of replacing these employees under the existing
conditions, seven of the vacancies had not been filled at the close
of the vear.
1/
In addition to the office forces, the labor forces engaged in main-
taining and operating the reservoirs, aqueducts, pipe lines, hydro*
electric stations and pumping stations and doing minor construction
work have been as follows : —
Department.
Beginning
of Year.
End of
Year.
Maximum.
Average.
Sudbury, ........
Distribution, pipe lines and reservoirs,
Distribution, pumping service, ....
42
57
78
56
49
82
91
61
76
95
104
63
57
78
88
61
233
283
338
284
During the year 21 employees have been mustered into the United
States service from the labor forces.
CONSTRUCTION.
Deferred Projects.
On account of the high prices of labor and materials and lack of
additional appropriation, the work of improving Beaver Dam Brook,
which was authorized by chapter 814 of the Acts of the year 1913,
and of laying a 12-inch pipe line in Poplar Street, West Roxbury,
and under the Neponset River in Hyde Park, and a 16-inch pipe
line in Arlington, authorized by chapter 172 of the General Acts
of the year 1916, was not undertaken during the year.
Proposals were received on June 15 for the 36-inch pipes and
special castings required for laying the additional supply main in
Chelsea for the East Boston low service, which was authorized by
chapter 322 of the General Acts of the year 1917. Revised esti-
mates, based on these proposals, showed that the cost of the pipe
line would exceed the appropriation by about $5,640, and the work
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was not undertaken. Opportunity was taken/ however, during the
year, in connection with the repaying of Williams Street by the
city of Chelsea, to relay 170 linear feet of the 20-inch pipe line
where it crosses over the 24-inch pipe line. This work has re-
moved an objectionable crossing of the two existing supply mains
and increased the reliability of the service.
Wachusett-Sudbuey Powee Teansmission Line.
During 1916 the preliminary engineering work in connection with
the preparation of the plans for the Wachusett-Sudbury power trans-
mission line was completed, and 177 chestnut poles 40 to 50 feet
in length were cut on the water works lands for use in its construc-
tion. The line will be used for furnishing electric energy to the
New England Power Company and the Edison Electric Illuminating
Company of Boston. These companies have contracted, jointly, to
purchase all of the electric energy to be generated at the Wachusett
power station for a period of ten years from the completion of the
transmission line, which is being constructed from a point near the
Wachusett power station in Clinton to a point near the Sudbury
power station in Southborough. It is located on lands owned by
the Commonwealth situated in the towns of Clinton, Berlin, North-
borough and Southborough and the city of Marlborough, and in-
cludes 15.59 miles of single circuit electric power transmission line
for 3-phase, 66,000-volt alternating current, with two telephone con-
ductors below the three power conductors for a distance of 15.25
miles. Except for a distance of 840 feet, where a location was
purchased in order to shorten the line about 1,300 feet, and an
easement about 67 feet in length at the crossing of the New York,
New Haven & Hartford Railroad in Southborough, the line is lo-
cated on lands acquired for the construction of the Wachusett
Aqueduct and the Sudbury Reservoir. The transmission line crosses
the waste channel and the valley below the Wachusett Dam, the
Assabet River beside the Wachusett Aqueduct bridge, the open
channel portion of the Wachusett Aqueduct in two places, the Sud-
bury Reservoir in three places, steam railways at four places and
twenty-seven highways.
On account of the advantage of following the aqueduct location
which was already acquired and of the numerous highway, railroad,
river and reservoir crossings, several types of construction w r ere
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necessary, including 14 steel towers, 12 double-pole structures, 34
pull-off poles and 354 single poles.
The steel towers were used at the three spans near the Wachusett
Dam, at the steam railroad crossings and at the two long spans
over the Sudbury Reservoir. They are made up of structural steel;
ten of them are approximately 48 feet in height and 9 feet square
at the base, and four are approximately 68 feet in height and
12 feet square at the base. Chestnut poles from 40 to 55 feet in
length were used for the remainder of the line, spaced about 200
feet apart and standing from 34 feet to 47| feet in height above
the ground. There are 412 chestnut poles in the entire line; 200
of them were cut on water works land by the department forces
and delivered to the contractor for use in the line without charge
therefor. The department forces also cleared the location for the
transmission line, where necessary, for a width of 50 feet and a total
length of about 7 miles, and laid 605 linear feet of 2-inch Orange-
burg fibre conduit easterly from the Wachusett power station for
the underground telephone cables.
At the crossings over the Assabet River and open channel, at
several highways and at deflection angles over 30 degrees, double-
pole structures were used. At most deflection angles of between 10
and 30 degrees pull-off poles were used and at deflection angles of
less than 10 degrees the regular single poles, properly guyed, were
used.
The power conductors are 3-strand, medium hard -drawn bare
copper cables of No. 2 American wire gage, except for a distance
of 1,594 feet for the three spans near the Wachusett Dam, where
No. 00 American wire gage 7-strand cable is used, and the center
strand is of soft copper.
The long span at the Wachusett Dam is 984 feet and the two
long spans over the Sudbury Reservoir are 685 feet and 753 feet,
respectively.
The telephone conductors are bare galvanized wire of No. 6
Birmingham wire gage, except at the two long spans over the Sud-
bury Reservoir where they are No. 4 Birmingham wire gage.
One complete transposition of the power conductors is made by
a one-third roll at three points in the line, and the telephone con-
ductors are transposed at every fourth pole.
The power line insulators are of porcelain for 66,000-volt service
No. 57.] AND SEWERAGE BOARD. 51
and are of the pin type on single-pole arms and pole-top brackets
and of the suspension type on pull-off poles, double-pole structures
and towers. The telephone line insulators are of porcelain for
13,000-volt service.
The regular cross-arms for the power conductors are 6 feet 6
inches long, built up of two 4-inch galvanized structural steel chan-
nels with the necessary plates and angles, and for the telephone
conductors they are 3 feet long of 3j-inch x 4^-inch prime quality
long-leaf yellow pine timber.
The regular arrangement of the power conductors is in triangular
formation spaced 6 feet apart on single poles and 10 feet apart at
the steel towers. At highway crossings the lowest power conductor
is at least 28 feet above the roadway and at least 8 feet above any
cross wires.
All poles were brush treated with two coats of creosote oil applied
at a temperature of 150 degrees Fahrenheit at all scars, knots,
gains, roofs and butts, and all wooden cross-arms and wooden
anchors were treated all over in a similar manner. For a distance
of 11 miles from the westerly end of the line the poles were treated
for 2 feet above and 2 feet below the ground line with two coats of
creosote oil, and for the remainder of the line the oil was omitted
and the entire base of the poles was charred below a point 2 feet
above the ground line, using large kerosene blow torches for this
work. At every pole structure a galvanized steel ground cable f of
an inch in diameter was coiled six times on the face of the butt,
extended up the pole and connected with the power cross-arm and
pole top pin.
A contract was made July 28 with Fred T. Ley & Company,
Incorporated, of Springfield, Mass., the lowest bidder for construct-
ing the transmission line. Work was begun by the contractor
September 10 and was continued until the end of the year. The
force employed averaged about 25 men and 2 horses.
The total expenditures for the transmission line to December 31,
1917, amounted to $19,234.14.
The work remaining to be done at the close of the year includes
some field riveting on the steel towers, placing the insulators, string-
ing the conductors and the final painting of the poles and towers.
At the close of the year the New England Power Company had
completed its 66,000-volt connecting line which extends about 1.7
52 METROPOLITAN WATER [Pub. Doc.
miles westerly from the westerly terminus of our line to the Com-
pany's sub-station in Clinton. As this sub-station is already con-
nected with the Wachusett power station by two 13, 200- volt lines
no direct connection will be made between the new 66,000-volt line
and the Wachusett power station, but a connection will be made
with the Sudbury power station early in the spring.
The connecting 66,000-volt line to be provided by the Edison
Electric Illuminating Company of Boston will extend from the
easterly terminus of our line for a distance of several miles to one
of its sub-stations. As work had not been begun by the Company
on its line at the close of the year work on our line will be sus-
pended as soon as the riveting of the steel towers is completed
and the remaining work will be deferred until the early spring.
Additional Nokthern High-service Pipe Line and Pumping
Machinery.
The work of installing at the northern extra high-service pumping
station in Arlington a steam turbine driven centrifugal pumping
unit of a capacity of 3,000,000 gallons in 24 hours and a return
tubular boiler 54 inches in diameter x 17 feet in length, provided
for by chapter 172 of the General Acts of the year 1916, has been
continued. Proposals for the pumping unijt were opened March 22,
and after a careful examination of the propositions submitted a
contract was made with F. A. Mazzur & Company of Boston to
furnish and install for the sum of $9,000 a unit consisting of a steam
turbine to be made by the Moore Steam Turbine Corporation of
Wellsville, N. Y., centrifugal pumps to be made by the Allis-
Chalmers Company of Milwaukee, Wis., and a horizontal cylindri-
cal condenser of the water works type and a Wheeler-Edwards type
air pump to be made by the Wheeler Condenser & Engine Company
of Carteret, N. J.
Owing to war-time conditions there has been considerable delay
in delivering the machinery. The steam turbine was tested at the
shop on October 1 and was delivered at the pumping station on
October 25. The centrifugal pumps were tested at the shop on
August 22, but owing to some minor changes necessary to comply
with the specifications were not delivered at the pumping station
until December 18. The condenser and air pump were inspected
at the shop on December 19 and were snipped December 28, but
had not been received at the end of the year.
No. 57.] AND SEWERAGE BOARD. 53
The concrete foundation for the unit was constructed by the
department forces and at the close of the year the contractor had
set the turbine and pumps on the foundation but had not lined
them up in final position.
Pipes and fittings for the discharge and suction piping and for
the new steam main were purchased and have been received, and a
portion of the suction piping has been laid.
A contract for making and delivering at the pumping station the
boiler with smoke box, up-take extension of existing flue, cast-iron
front and I beam supports was made with the New England Iron
Works Company of South Boston on May 15 for the sum of $2,296.
After considerable delay, due to the abnormal condition of the
steel business, the contractor received the steel from the mill on
October 4, and on account of further delay at the contractor's shop
the boiler is only 80 per cent, completed at the end of the year.
A 14-inch Coppus blower is to be installed with the new boiler
and a 12-inch Coppus blower has been installed on one of the
existing boilers to furnish forced draft, so that a large percentage
of anthracite screenings may be burned at this station in the future.
A Westinghouse locomotive-type air compressor, with steam cylin-
der 9| inches in diameter and air cylinder 7§ inches in diameter
and a stroke of 10 inches, Was installed for use in place of the large
suction air chamber which it was necessary to remove to provide
for the new suction piping.
Plans for the proposed 16-inch pipe line to extend from the
northern extra high-service stand-pipe in Arlington to the Lexington
boundary line have been completed, but, owing to the continued
high price of cast-iron pipe and special castings, the construction
of this line has been again deferred until it can be done under
more economical conditions.
The expenditures for these improvements to December 31, 1917,
amount to $7,637.00, of which $314.64 was for the pipe line and
$7,322.36 for the pumping station.
Meters and Connections.
To provide for satisfactory operation of the supply mains acquired
from the city of Boston in 1913, the work of relocating the Venturi
meters and of making additional connections under the provisions
of chapter 172 of the General Acts of the year 1916, which was
begun in 1916, has been continued during the year 1917.
54 METROPOLITAN WATER [Pub. Doc.
The work of installing a 30-inch x 10-inch Venturi meter, 30-inch
check valve and 12-inch blow-off connection in Perkins Street at
the Boston-Somerville boundary line, which was suspended at the
close of the year 1916 on account of the unfavorable weather, was
resumed early in 1917 and the meter w r as put into service April 4.
The blow-off pipe was laid and the entire work was completed
during the following month. The total expenditure for all work
at this place amounts to $2,895.18, including the expenditure made
in 1916.
In May and June the 48-inch x 22j-inch Venturi meter in the
former Boston Water Works Beacon Street line near effluent gate-
house No. 1 at Chestnut Hill Reservoir in Boston, was taken up,
and after substituting an 18-inch throat section for the 22§-inch,
the meter was installed in the Beacon Street main at St. Mary's
Street in Brookline, at the Boston boundary line. A 48-inch check
valve and a 12-inch blow-off connection were installed at this place
and the 48-inch meter was put into service again on June 15. A
36-inch gate valve and 48-inch manhole pipe were installed in the
48-inch pipe line near effluent gate-house No. 1 at the point where
the meter had been removed, and in connection with this work the
interior surface of the 48-inch main was cleaned for a distance of
325 feet and for a length of 50 feet was given two coats of red lead
and linseed oil paint. The total expenditures for removing and re-
locating the meter and doing all other work in connection there-
with was $5,914.33.
In June and July a 16-inch gate valve was set in the former
Boston Water Works 24-inch main in Broadway, Somerville, at the
Boston boundary line, and a 10-inch x 3f-inch Venturi meter, a 10-
inch gate valve, 10-inch check valve and 8-inch blow-off connection
w r ere installed on the by-pass around the 16-inch valve. The meter
was put into service on July 18 but the blow-off pipe has not been
connected with the sewer. The total expenditures for this work
amount to $1,767.67.
September 13 work was begun on the connection between the
former 30-inch Boston Water Works main, the Metropolitan Water
Works 48-inch main and the Boston Water Works 24-inch main in
Perkins Street, at Prince Street in Boston, near the Brookline
boundary line, and in connection with this work a 30-inch x 12-inch
Venturi meter was moved from the old Brookline Reservoir grounds-
No. 57.] AND SEWERAGE BOARD. 55
on October 29 and installed at Perkins Street, so that it will meas-
ure all of the water delivered to the city of Boston from both the
30-inch and the 48-inch mains. A 30-inch check valve and 8-inch
blow-off connection were also installed at this place. The meter
was again placed in service on November 10 and the entire work
was completed on December 4. The total expenditures for this
work amount to $4,926.00.
In August a branch pipe line was laid from the 30-inch low-
service main near the old Mystic pumping station to the Alewife
Brook Parkway in Somerville for supplying a small section of Somer-
ville which is now supplied from the northern high-service. This
line includes 143 feet of 24-inch pipe, 57 feet of 16-inch pipe and
51 feet of 12-inch by-pass line, and a 6-inch x 3-inch Hersey de-
tector meter was installed. The connecting line which is to be
installed by the city of Somerville had not been laid at the close
of the year. The total expenditures for the work amount to
$2,768.83.
MAINTENANCE.
Rainfall and Yield of Wateesheds.
The annual precipitation was below the average on all watersheds,
being 37.26 inches on the Wachusett watershed as compared with
an average of 44.91 inches for the past twenty-one years and a
previous minimum of 37.83 inches in 1908; 41.51 inches on the
Sudbury watershed as compared with an average of 44.60 inches
for the past forty-three years, and 41.69 inches on the Cochituate
watershed as compared with an average of 45.23 inches for the past
fifty-five years.
The monthly precipitation was above the average on all the
watersheds during March, May, June, August and October, but
there was a deficiency during the other months. The rainfall in July
was the lowest shown by our records for this month on all water-
sheds, and the rainfall on the Wachusett watershed in April was
the same as in April, 1915, and lower than the April rainfall for
any other year included in our records.
The monthly yield from the Wachusett watershed was below the
average except during May, June and October. The average yield
for the year was 834,000 gallons per day per square mile, which is
78.5 per cent, of the average for the past twenty-one years. The
yield from the Sudbury watershed was 750,000 gallons per day per
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[Pub. Doc.
square mile, which is 76.5 per cent, of the average for the past
forty-three years and 84.1 per cent, of the average for the past
twenty years during which water has been discharged into the Sud-
bury Reservoir from the Wachusett watershed. The yield from the
Cochituate watershed was 786,000 gallons per day per square mile,
which is 85.5 per cent, of the average for the past fifty-five years.
During the year the city of Worcester turned 1,417,200,000 gal-
lons of water into the Wachusett watershed from the 9.35 square
miles formerly in this watershed which it took for its water supply
in 1911, and by agreement the City is entitled to compensation from
the Commonwealth for 207,800,000 gallons of this water which was
delivered between June 15 and December 15.
Storage Reservoirs.
The capacities of the storage reservoirs of the Metropolitan Water
Works, the elevation of the water surfaces and the quantity of
water stored in each reservoir at the beginning and at the end of
the year are shown by the following table: —
Eleva-
tion 1
of
High
Water.
Capacity
(Gallons).
Jan. 1, 1917.
Jan. 1, 1918.
Storage Reservoirs.
Eleva-
tion 1
of
Water
Surface.
Amount
stored
(Gallons).
Eleva-
tion 1
of
Water
Surface.
Amount
stored
(Gallons).
Cochituate watershed : —
Lake Cochituate, 2 .
144.36
2,097,100,000
143.23
1,830,100,000
141.91
1,524,600,000
Sudbury watershed: —
Sudbury Reservoir,
260.00
7,253,500,000
258.49
6,623,800,000
257.52
6,225,200,000
Framingham Reservoir
No. 1.
Framingham Reservoir
No. 2.
Framingham Reservoir
No. 3.
Ashland Reservoir,
169.32
177.87
186.74
225.21
289,900,000 3
529,900,000 3
1,180,000,000 3
1,416,400,000
167.70
176.02
183.53
224.28
216,100,000
482,600,000
942,300,000
1,365,200,000
167.71
176.02
183.25
223.59
216,500,000
482,600,000
920,300,000
1,327,900,000
Hopkinton Reservoir,
305.00
1,520,900,000
304.07
1,462,700,000
303.30
1,415,100,000
Whitehall Reservoir,
337.91
1,256,900,000
336.65
1,013,300,000
336.79
1,040,000,000
Farm Pond,
159.25
167,500,000
157.39
69,600,000
157.75
88,200,000
Wachusett watershed: —
Wachusett Reservoir,
395.00
64,968,000,000
387.11
54,679,600,000
385.94
53,225,600,000
Totals, ....
-
80,680,100,000
-
68,685,300,000
-
66,466,000,000
1 Elevation in feet above Boston City Base.
2 Excluding Dudley Pond which was abandoned April 3, 1916.
3 To top of flash-boards.
QUANTITY OF WATER STORED IN THE WACHUSETT RESERVOIR
AND IN ALL THE STORAGE RESERVOIRS COMBINED
DURING 1917
JAN. FEB MAR. APR. MAY JUN. JUL. AUG. SEP OCT MOV. DEC.
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No. 57.] AND SEWERAGE BOARD. 57
The diagram facing page 56 shows the quantity of water stored
in the Wachusett Reservoir and the quantity stored in all the storage
reservoirs combined during the year.
Wachusett Reservoir. — At the beginning of the year the Wachu-
sett Reservoir contained 54,679,600,000 gallons of water and the
surface of the water was at elevation 387.11, approximately 8 feet
below high-water line. It subsided gradually and was at elevation
384.97 on February 23. It then rose rapidly with the spring rains
and thaws and was at elevation 393.46 on April 11. The reservoir
continued to fill slowly and the water reached elevation 395 on
May 13 and remained above this elevation until July 9, and be-
tween May 28 and June -20, 1,473,900,000 gallons of water was
wasted from the reservoir. The maximum rate at which water was
wasted was 480,400,000 gallons per day on June 17 and 18. The
highest stage reached by the water was elevation 395.55 on June 17.
The reservoir then contained 65,710,900,000 gallons of water from
which a steady draft for water supply was maintained until the
end of the year, with the exception that no water was drawn be-
tween October 27 and November 6, in order to permit the West-
borough State Hospital to extend its 12-inch suction pipe up the
open channel of the Wachusett Aqueduct to the terminal chamber
and to allow the contractor for the Wachusett-Sudbury transmission
line to set the poles along the open channel. At the end of the year
the reservoir contained 53,225,600,000 gallons of water and the sur-
face of the water was at elevation 385.94.
During the year 1,298,600,000 gallons of water was discharged
from the reservoir through the pool below the dam and through
the pipe line to the Lancaster Mills, in accordance with the pro-
visions of section 4 of chapter 488 of the Acts of the year 1895,
which requires that not less than 12,000,000 gallons, and such fur-
ther quantity, not exceeding 12,000,000 gallons, as the owner of
the mills shall deem necessary, shall be allowed to flow from the
reservoir during each week.
The emergency pumping station of the city of Worcester, located
on the shore of the reservoir at South Bay in Boylston, was not
operated by the city during the year. The Mayor and Water
Commissioner of the city have agreed to remove all of the station
and equipment, except the foundations and intake pipe, before the
station is again submerged in the spring, but nothing had been done
at the close of the vear.
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Miscellaneous debris brought into the reservoir during the high
water flow in the spring was collected from the shores and disposed
of at a cost of $73.46.
The brook which enters the reservoir at the westerly side of
Hastings cove, in Boyiston, was straightened, graded, and paved
on the bottom and sides for a length of 395 feet at a cost of $454.27.
At South Bay, in Boylston, the shore of the reservoir was paved
for a distance of 102 feet and a width of 10 feet, and a wooden
guard rail was constructed along the highway at the top of the slope.
This work cost $230, and was necessary to prevent the undermin-
ing of the highway by the action of the waves on the unprotected
slope.
Brush and weeds have been mowed, raked into piles and burned
along the sides of the highways adjoining the water works lands,
along the brooks flowing directly into the reservoir and along the
margin of the reservoir, from a strip of water works land 100 feet
in width extending for a distance of 3| miles along the highways
bordering the reservoir, and at the North and South dikes. This
work extended over a distance of 58 J miles and cost $4,013.
Wheelock wire fences were constructed along the boundary of
the water works land for a distance of 1,634 feet at the John Nava-
roli and Parker Banning lands in West Boylston at a cost of about
13 cents per linear foot, and an equivalent length of party fence
was constructed by these adjoining owners.
The Wachusett Dam and gate chambers are in good repair. A
joint leak in the 24-inch pipe line leading to the Lancaster Mills
canal, which had been developing for some time and caused con-
siderable settlement in the lawn below the dam, was repaired in
June at a cost of $563.26. To make these repairs it was necessary
to excavate and tight sheet a trench about 20 feet long and 18 feet
deep.
The nine water works tenements and the buildings at the Clinton
and Oakdale storage yards have been repaired where necessary. On
February 3 the one and a half story wooden dwelling formerly
owned by Charles H. Baldwin at Sterling Junction was entirely
destroyed by fire. The cellar has since been filled in, fruit trees
cut down and grounds graded. On June 24 the one and a half
story wooden dwelling in Boylston, occupied by patrolman Charles
S. Knight and known as the Tucker house, was entirely destroyed
No. 57.] AND SEWERAGE BOARD. 59
by fire. The cellar has been filled in, the trees which were injured
by the fire cut down and the grounds graded. The barn at this
place was not damaged at all by the fire and has been left for the
use of the labor forces.
The old two story brick house, known ak the Brelin house on
Prescott Street, West Boylston, was razed in the fall and the cellar
filled in and grounds graded. This house was last occupied in
September, 1916.
Shortly after the loss of the Tucker house 15.81 acres of the
Everett Kendall farm on Main Street, Boylston, with the buildings
thereon, were purchased for the protection of the water supply.
The house is now occupied by patrolman Knight, who uses the
small barn, but the large wooden barn has been razed at a cost of
$354 and all the good lumber has been preserved for future use.
Seven acres of water works land easterly of Beaman Street, West
Boylston, was leased to the Worcester County Commissioners for
agricultural purposes in connection with the Worcester County
Training School for boys.
Standing grass was sold from about 370 acres of water works
land bordering on the reservoir and its tributary streams. The
total receipts from the sale of this grass amount to $1,083.75.
A Ford automobile, fitted with light truck body, was purchased
in July for the use of the general foreman on work about the
reservoir.
Sudbury Reservoir. — The water in the Sudbury Reservoir was
at elevation 258.49, approximately one-half foot below the crest of
the overflow, at the beginning of the year, and was kept at about
this elevation until the flash-boards were put in place April 9. The
water was then maintained between elevation 259 and 260 until
the flash-boards were removed, November 15. Early in November
the water was drawn down to elevation 257 to facilitate the erec-
tion of the poles for the Wachusett-Sudbury transmission line by
the contractor for this work.
The usual attention has been given to the care of the reservoir
lands and structures. The shores of the reservoir were cleaned and
the debris which had collected in coves was removed. Loam and a
mixture of chemical fertilizer and salt were put on the land slope
of the dam embankment in the spring and some loam was prepared
for future use.
60 METROPOLITAN WATER [Pub. Doc.
The sprouts and brush were mowed in the lanes along the land
lines through the woods for a distance of about 8 miles at a cost
of $.78.00. Fifteen chestnut poles 25 feet in length for use on the
works were cut, peeled and housed. Walks and drives were re-
paired, iron doors, grilles, manhole covers, bridge rails, flash-board
standards, life preservers, signs, guards and agricultural implements
were repaired and painted.
The Cratty house, in Fayville, was repaired by putting in a new
hard pine floor and metal ceiling and by painting the woodwork
and the new ceiling in the kitchen. The west side of the main
house, where the clapboards were cracked and loose, was covered
with roofing paper and shingled over the clapboards to keep the
house warm.
Seventeen standard land bounds and one copper bolt were set
to define the boundaries of land acquired from Frederick R. S.
Mildon in 1916 and from Carl R. Lindstrom in 1917. Both of these
parcels are located in Southborough. The Carl R. Lindstrom land,
which was acquired this year, has an area of 2.36 acres.
Framingham Reservoir No. 3. — All of the water delivered through
the Sudbury Aqueduct for the supply of the Metropolitan Water
District was drawn from Framingham Reservoir No. 3, which was
replenished with water from the Sudbury Reservoir, as required.
During the winter the water was kept below the crest of the over-
flow, between elevations 183 and 185, and during the warm weather
the water was kept above the crest, between elevations 185 and 186.
Water was wasted from the reservoir into Framingham Reservoir
No. 1 over the flash-boards on one day in June, and through the
waste-gates at times in May and June. The gate-house and dam
received the usual care. Fertilizer was spread over the embank-
ments and brush was mowed in the lanes through the woods and
along the boundary of the reservoir lands for a distance of 2\ miles.
Framingham Reservoirs Nos. 1 and 2, Ashland, Hopkinton and
Whitehall Reservoirs. — No water was drawn from these reservoirs
for supplying the Metropolitan Water District during the year and
they were kept substantially full, and, with the exception of White-
hall Reservoir, with flash-boards on the overflows when they were
free from ice. In January and February the water in Framingham
Reservoir No. 1 was drawn down about 4 feet to facilitate the work
of installing a new water supply at the Bullard place, and during
No. 57.] AND SEWERAGE BOARD. 61
the freshet season the water in Ashland and Hopkinton reservoirs
was drawn down about one foot so that the flow in the Sudbury
River could be controlled properly.
A discharge of not less than 1,500,000 gallons of water per day
was maintained throughout the year from Framingham Reservoir
No. 1 into the Sudbury River, as required by the provisions of
chapter 177 of the Acts of the year 1872. Water was also discharged
in larger quantities from time to time, as required to dispose of a
portion of the yield of the watershed above Dam No. 1 which could
not be stored in the reservoirs.
The usual attention was given to the dams, gate-houses and
structures at these reservoirs. Fertilizer was spread on the reser-
voir embankments. The riprap slopes and the grounds at all dams
and the ironwork and stop-planks at the gate-houses have been
kept in good condition.
Early in the year a new water supply was installed at the water
works premises known as the Bullard place, located on Salem End
Road at Framingham Reservoir No. 1 and occupied by one of the
foremen. It consisted of a Vaile-Kimes double-acting duplex pump
with a capacity of 12 gallons per minute, a 30-inch diameter x 10
feet long steel pressure tank and a f-horse power electric motor
which operates the pump automatically with the variation of pres-
sure in the tank. The apparatus is located in the house cellar.
The pump is supplied with water from the 48-inch main located
about 180 feet south of the house through a 2-inch cement-lined
iron suction pipe, and a l|-inch cement-lined iron supply pipe 130
feet in length extends from the pressure tank to the barn. An
ample supply of water at a pressure of 50 pounds per square inch
is now available at all times at the house and barn for fire pro-
tection or other purposes. The charge for electricity used to oper-
ate the pump has never exceeded the Company's minimum charge
of 75 cents per month.
Brush has been mowed and burned for a total length of 21.6
miles along the waste channels and in the lanes through the woods,
along the boundary lines of the water works lands at these reser-
voirs, and f of a mile of new lanes have been cut at Hopkinton
Reservoir.
Two bounds were set to mark the boundary of the water works
lands recently acquired from E. E. Goodale at Whitehall Reservoir.
62 METROPOLITAN WATER [Pub. Doc.
At Ashland Reservoir the gate-keeper's house was repaired by
putting in a new platform and steps at the rear entrance. Late in
the fall work was begun on the new barn, about 30 feet square,
to replace the old barn which is no longer suitable for use. At the
end of the year the cellar had been excavated, the foundation wall
was built and work had been begun on the superstructure. This
work is being done by the water works employees when not required
elsewhere.
During the year one new cottage was built at Whitehall Reser-
voir, one was removed and one was torn down, so that there are
now 64 cottages, or one less than last year, located on the shores
of this reservoir. There were 8 motor boats, 84 sail boats and 25
canoes in use on the reservoir during the summer, a total of 117,
or 8 less than in 1916.
Farm Pond. — Although Farm Pond is not used as a source of
supply for the Metropolitan Water District the water therein has
been kept within about lj feet of the high-water line throughout
the year by supplying it with water from Framingham Reservoirs
Nos. 1 and 2 in January to accommodate the town of Framingham,
which obtains a portion of its water supply from the filter-gallery
located on the easterly shore of the pond. No water was wasted
from the pond during the year. Under the rights reserved by legis-
lation the town of Framingham pumped 207,800,000 gallons of
water from the filter-gallery and the Boston & Albany and New
York, New Haven & Hartford railroad companies took approxi-
mately 185,000,000 gallons directly from the pond for their use
during the year.
Lake Cochituate. — At the beginning of the year the water in
Lake Cochituate was at elevation 143.23, approximately one foot
below high-water line. Water was drawn from the lake through the
Cochituate Aqueduct for water supply in August and September,
and was wasted at the outlet dam at times during every month in
the year.
The buildings and grounds at the foreman's headquarters have
received the usual attention and some repairs have been made at
the house and wagon shed, and both of these buildings were given
a coat of paint.
A gasoline-driven pump with a capacity of 6 gallons per minute,
and a vertical steel pressure tank 36 inches in diameter x 6 feet in
No. 57.] AND SEWERAGE BOARD. 63
height was purchased of the Goulds Manufacturing Company in
September and was installed in the barn cellar to improve the water
supply for the house and other buildings.
Brush was mowed in the lanes through the woods along the
boundaries of the water works lands and the debris which had
collected in the coves along the margins of the lake was removed.
In connection with the maintenance of the surface water drain
from Cochituate Village the grass and brush were mowed for a
width of 10 feet on both sides of the open channel and sediment
was removed from the catch basins and from the sand catcher on
Bannister's Brook.
During the year 36 cottages were built by adjoining property
owners and two cottages were burned. There are now 124 cottages,
12 garages and one stable on the adjoining lands.
Aqueducts.
Wachusett Aqueduct. — Water was discharged through the Wachu-
sett Aqueduct from the Wachusett Reservoir on 302 days in 1917.
The total time that the aqueduct was in use is equivalent to 118
days, 20 hours and 44 minutes. The total quantity of water dis-
charged was 32,893,900,000 gallons, equivalent to an average of
90,120,000 gallons per day for the entire year. The Westborough
State Hospital pumped 57,387,000 gallons of water, equivalent to
an average consumption of 157,000 gallons per day, from the open
channel just beyond the lower end of the masonry aqueduct. The
12-inch iron suction pipe through which the water is pumped was
extended about 750 feet to the terminal chamber of the masonry
aqueduct. By this arrangement the hospital is assured of water
direct from the Wachusett Reservoir at all times. Since November
6, when this extension was completed, we have had the entire care
and made all adjustments of the Venturi meter and recording appa-
ratus which measures the water pumped.
While the water in the upper portion of the open channel was
drawn off for the extension of the suction pipe the stone paving at
the terminal chamber was extended for a distance of 25 feet. Heavy
field stones were used for this work to prevent further erosion of
the bottom and slopes by the action of the water as it enters the
channel from the terminal chamber, and the water-grass, weeds and
sediment were cleaned from the bottom and sides of the channel
64 METROPOLITAN WATER [Pub. Doc.
for the entire distance of 4,670 feet above the upper dam. The
cost of this work was $209.26.
A driveway was constructed from Cedar Street, in Marlborough,
crossing the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad to the
terminal chamber. The roadway is 10 feet wide and was built with
stones from an old wall, which were covered with bank sand and
gravel from a spoil bank on the aqueduct lands. The edges of the
driveway were graded with loam and seeded. A Wheelock wire
fence was built on the property line on one side and 55 white spruce
trees were set out in a row on the other side of the driveway for a
length of 700 feet. The cost of the work, including a small re-
taining wall and culvert, the fencing and the grading was $1,114.88.
A Wheelock wire fence 584 feet in length was erected on the
property line between the parcel of land acquired last year, located
near the terminal chamber and adjoining land of James B. Johnson.
The iron railings and fences have been painted with Smith's
Durable Metal Coating at the lower dam, at 8 highways along the
aqueduct and at the Assabet Bridge, also the manhole covers and
ladders at all manholes and the ironwork at the gaging manhole.
About 6^ acres of aqueduct embankment was harrowed, fertil-
ized and seeded at a cost of $136 per acre. This work extended
over a distance of 5,800 feet and 10 tons of commercial fertilizer,
\ ton of coarse salt and 6 bushels of grass seed were used in the
work.
Brush, grass and weeds have been mowed and disposed of for a
distance of 10 miles along the aqueduct at a cost of $98 per mile.
Sudbury Aqueduct. — During the year the Sudbury Aqueduct was
in service continuously for conveying water from Framingham Reser-
voir No. 3 to the Chestnut Hill distributing reservoir, with the ex-
ception of 9| hours on January 11, when the flow was stopped in
order to convey water from Framingham Reservoirs Nos. 1 and 2
through the supply aqueduct to Farm Pond. The total quantity
of water discharged through the aqueduct to Chestnut Hill Reser-
voir was 20,276,800,000 gallons, equivalent to an average of 55,553,-
000 gallons per day for the entire year, which is 5,193,000 gallons
per day more than in 1916.
The iron floor and gate standards in the gate-house at Farm
Pond were given one coat of paint.
The shed near the office at Framingham was made into a garage
No. 57.] AND SEWERAGE BOARD. 65
about 33J x 20 feet in dimension, by an addition extending 18 feet
in the rear. A concrete floor was constructed and an Akron pipe
was laid to a dry cesspool to take care of the wash water. The
building was wired for electric lights and the surrounding grounds
were graded. The cost of the garage, which will house three cars,
with room for a bench and another car when making repairs, was
$410. The exterior of the garage and of the office was given one
coat of paint.
The old stop-planks at the waste-weirs, which had been in po-
sition for a long time and had been set in cement mortar to pre-
vent leakage, were taken out, and as they were found to be gen-
erally in poor condition new stop-planks, 24 in number, were made
for the four waste-weirs.
About 29,000 pounds of mixed chemical fertilizer and salt were
spread on the aqueduct embankments at places where needed to
keep the land in good condition. The culverts were kept free from
snow and ice. Brush, grass and weeds were mowed where the
aqueduct land is not cared for by the adjoining owners. The city
of Newton Sewer Department laid a line of 12-inch Akron pipe in
Portland cement mortar in the culvert under the aqueduct at
Pleasant Street, Newton Center.
Weston Aqueduct. — Water was supplied from the Sudbury Res-
ervoir to the Weston Reservoir through the Weston Aqueduct on
304 days during the year. The total time that this portion of the
aqueduct was in service is equivalent to 185 days, 19 hours and 14
minutes, and the total quantity of water discharged was 19,008,-
800,000 gallons, equivalent to an average of 52,079,000 gallons per
day for the entire year, which is 620,000 gallons per day less than
last year. As the aqueduct is now operated in connection with the
Sudbury power station it has not been in service on Sundays and
holidays, and the total flow for the week has been discharged be-
tween 7 a.m. and 11 p.m. on the other days.
The interior and exterior ironwork at the head-house, the man-
hole covers along the aqueduct, both barns at the White place in
Nobscot and the interior and exterior woodwork at the head-house
were given one coat of paint. The main portion of the house at
the White place was shingled.
Brush and sprouts growing from trees previously cut on the
aqueduct land and in the lanes through the woods along the bound-
66 METROPOLITAN WATER [Pub. Doc.
ary of the water works land on the southerly side of the aqueduct,
at the White place and for 3,400 feet east of Water Street, Nobscot,
where there is a large area of land, were mowed.
The culverts were kept free from snow and ice and 21,700 pounds
of mixed chemical fertilizer and salt were spread on the large em-
bankment between Edgell Street, Framingham, and the old Con-
necticut Path, Wayland, and at a few other places.
A Wheelock wire fence 900 feet long was erected along the aque-
duct to replace an old wire fence that had entirely rusted away in
some places. This fence was erected in most part on the existing
posts but it was necessary to set 27 new posts. The iron fence and
all of the interior ironwork at the terminal chamber were painted
with black varnish and the driveway in front of the terminal chamber
was surfaced with fine broken stone.
Cochituate Aqueduct. — Water was discharged through the Cochitu-
ate Aqueduct from Lake Cochituate to the Chestnut Hill distribut-
ing reservoir on 29 days during the year. The total time that the
aqueduct was in use is equivalent to 27 days, 8 hours and 20 min-
utes, and the total quantity of water discharged was 125,400,000
gallons.
The aqueduct embankments were dressed with mixed chemical
fertilizer where necessary to keep them in satisfactory condition.
Six thousand pounds of fertilizer was used in the work. The cul-
verts along the line have been kept free from ice, and brush, grass
and weeds were mowed.
The Newton & Watertown Gas Light Company laid a 2-inch
wrought-iron pipe across the aqueduct from Carver Road to the
Atlas Film Corporation building, in Newton Highlands, for a dis-
tance of 320 feet.
The town of Wellesley laid a line of 10-inch cast-iron pipe from
its main sewer in Washington Street, across the aqueduct to Park
Street, a distance of 48 feet, a line of 8-inch iron pipe 60 feet in
length on Worcester Street across the aqueduct to the manhole 12
feet easterly from the center of the aqueduct, and from this point
a line of 10-inch iron pipe for a distance of 24 feet. All of these
lines were laid with lead joints, under our supervision, to ensure
water-tight work.
Between Blossom Street and Wellesley Hills Square 17 house
connections were made from the main sewer in Central and Wash-
No. 57.] AND SEWERAGE BOARD. 67
ington streets. These house connections were made with 5-inch
cast-iron pipe with lead joints, under our supervision, as most of
them cross the aqueduct.
Sanitary Inspection of Watersheds.
The usual sanitary inspection of the watersheds was made during
the year for the purpose of preventing the pollution of the water
supply. A summary of the work is given in the tables on pages
68 and 69.
Ice cutting operations were inspected at the several ponds and
reservoirs during the winter and special watchmen were employed
from May to September, inclusive, to prevent bathing and un-
authorized boating and fishing in the reservoirs.
Wachusett Watershed.
On the Wachusett watershed 17 dwellings were built during the
year, 5 buildings were destroyed by fire and 1 was removed. As
a result of these changes there has been an increase of 11 premises
on the watershed during the year, making the total premises at the
close of the year 1,731.
The most notable changes on the Wachusett watershed during
the year are the extensive additions to the Jefferson Manufacturing
Company's mills at Jeffersonville and Eagleville, the destruction by
fire of the Warren tannery at Holden on June 19 and of the Town
Hall in West Boylston early Christmas morning, the sale by the
farmers of their flocks and herds, and the reduction of agricultural
and increase of industrial activities.
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Sudbury Watershed.
On the Sudbury watershed there were 4,874 premises at the be-
ginning of the year and 4,877 at the end of the year, an increase
of 3 premises during the year; resulting from the construction of
11 buildings and the destruction by fire or removal of 8 buildings.
There has been some increase in industrial activity in Ashland,
Hopkinton and Marlborough during the year.
On October 12 two factories, a rooming house and a hotel were
completely destroyed by fire in Westborough.
A mobilization camp for the 6th Regiment, M. V. M., was lo-
cated in June on Dudley Road, near Farm Pond, in Framingham.
Surface drainage from this area was diverted by an intercepting
ditch from the pond some years ago by the city of Boston, but as
the camp was located quite near the pond and Sudbury Aqueduct
precautions were taken to see that there was no pollution of the
Metropolitan water supply. The town of Framingham has main-
tained a supervised public swimming pool for the past three years
in that part of the pond located south of the aqueduct and known
locally as Little Farm Pond. This pool was ideally located for the
use of the soldiers, over 16,000 baths being taken, so that there was
no temptation for them to go elsewhere.
The new low-level sewer which is to serve the northern and
eastern sections of the city of Marlborough has been completed but
as yet no houses on the Sudbury watershed have been connected.
The authorities have not urged the owners to make these connections
this fall because of the scarcity of pipe.
Cochituate Watershed.
On the Cochituate watershed there were 3,144 premises at the
beginning of the year and 3,198 at the end of the year, an increase
of 54, which results from the construction of 57 buildings and the
destruction by fire or removal of 3 buildings.
Protection of the Water Supply.
Filtration and Chlorination.
On the W T achusett watershed the surface water from 525 acres in
the village of Sterling has been filtered at the Sterling filter-beds.
The sewage from the Worcester County Training School has been
No. 57.] AND SEWERAGE BOARD. 71
purified at the filter-beds on Beaman Street in West Boylston.
This institution now accommodates about 87 boys and teachers. The
sewage from the five small cottages at Sterling Junction was filtered
at the Gates Terrace filter-beds from April 11 to November 3,
while the cottages were occupied. The cost of maintaining all of
these filters was $713.57.
On the Sudbury watershed the surface water from an area of 2
square miles in Marlborough has been filtered at the Marlborough
Brook filter-beds before entering the Sudbury Reservoir, with the
exception of 15,200,000 gallons on February 26 and 27 which the
filters could not take care of, and as it overflowed at the waste-
ways it was treated with calcium hypochlorite. No diluted sewage
from the Marlborough main sewer was received at the combined stor-
age reservoir and filter-bed on Farm Road, but ground water from the
sewer underdrain was filtered at this bed at times during the spring
and fall. The drainage from the Southborough swimming pool was
filtered at the beds near Boston Road and the pool was cleaned
once during the season. The surface water from Cherry Street
brook at Fayville was treated with calcium hypochlorite weekly in
wet weather and when necessary during dry weather from April
to December. The cost of the filtration and chlorination work on
the Sudbury watershed was $2,882.83.
On the Cochituate watershed the surface water from an area of
about one square mile of the thickly settled portion of the town of
Natick was pumped at the Pegan filter station and filtered before
it entered Lake Cochituate, with the exception of the overflow from
the intercepting reservoir on February 26 and 27 and from March
11 to 18 and on May 6, during which time there was a total over-
flow of 15,200,000 gallons which was treated with calcium hypo-
chlorite.
The pumping station was operated on 234 days during the year
and 305,935,000 gallons, equivalent to an average of 838,000 gallons
per day for the entire year was pumped to the filters. The cost of
operating and maintaining the pumping station and filters was
$4,415.50 which is equivalent to a cost of $14.43 per million gallons
pumped.
The amount of water pumped and the cost per million gallons
was increased this year as in previous years by waste from the
Natick Box Company's factory which flowed through the inter-
72 METROPOLITAN WATER [Pub. Doc.
cepting ditch into the intercepting reservoir, and the removal of the
paper pulp deposited in the settling reservoir and on the filter-beds
has been a source of considerable expense which, as in former years,
will be paid by the Natick Box Company.
Improvement of Swamps and Brooks.
The ditches maintained in the swamps on the watersheds for
improving the quality of the water were cleaned and the weeds
and brush were mowed for a width of 10 to 20 feet on both sides
where necessary. The total length of these ditches is 36.67 miles,
of which 27.73 miles have been cared for by the Wachusett De-
partment at a cost of $932.60 for the usual cleaning and mowing.
An expenditure of $1,110.45 was made for repairing slopes and
paving for a distance of 9,120 feet and for replacing the board
bottoms and slope footings for a distance of 2,040 feet. The cost
of the usual cleaning and mowing along the 8.94 miles of ditches
which are cared for by the Sudbury Department was $400, and an
expenditure of $398 was made for repairing the board bottoms and
sills for a length of 1,371 feet, slope footings for a length of 4,165
feet and paving for a length of 1,871 feet. This work covered short
distances in all of the ditches. A portion of the Mowry Brook
drainage ditch was rebuilt on account of the relocation of Boston
Road in Marlborough by the Massachusetts Highway Commission.
The work on the ditch was done by the department forces at a cost
of $51.37, which was repaid by the Highway Commission.
An area of about 4j acres in Little Crane Swamp, Northborough,
where the growth of swamp maple, elm and chestnut was damaged
by fire in 1911 and was badly infested with the gypsy moth, was
cleared at a cost of $358.90. About 80 cords of wood, valued at
$266, and 9 chestnut poles 40 feet in length, which were used in
the transmission line, valued at $65, were obtained from this work.
Wheelock wire fencing has been erected on the property line be-
tween the water works land and land of Garad Busby in North-
borough for a distance of 1,050 feet, at a cost of $142.50, and an
equivalent length of party fence was erected by Mr. Busby.
The lanes cut in previous years along the boundary line of Cedar
Swamp in the Sudbury Department were mowed for a length of
18,600 feet and new lines were cut for a length of 14,000 feet.
The work of improving Gates Brook in the Wachusett watershed,
No. 57.] AND SEWERAGE BOARD. 73
at the district known as "The Settlement" in West Boylston, which
was begun in 1915 and continued in 1916, was resumed on July 23
and was suspended for the season on September 20 on account of the
scarcity and high cost of labor and of the State highway construc-
tion in the vicinity, which increased the cost of transporting the
materials. During 1917 one concrete culvert 40 feet long and 440
feet of open channel of the standard swamp drainage board-bottom
type were constructed. About half of the work is now finished.
The expenditures for the work during 1917 were $1,171.71, and the
total to date $4,773.18.
The Maple Street Brook in Marlborough in the Sudbury water-
shed was kept free from debris.
The condition of Beaver Dam Brook in the Cochituate watershed
was considerably improved in appearance and capacity during the
month of October for a distance of 12,700 feet above Mill Street,
in Natick, where it enters Lake Cochituate, by removing sand bars
and debris from the channel and by cutting the brush and weeds
along the banks. The expenditure for this work amounted to $690.
For the protection of the water supply on the Wachusett water-
shed 15.77 acres of land, located on Main Street in Boylston, has
been acquired during the year.
Clinton Sewage Disposal Wokks.
Pumping Station.
Chapter 557 of the Acts of the year 1898 provides that works
for the disposal of the sewage of the town of Clinton shall be main-
tained and operated by the Metropolitan Water Works until the
sewage of said town shall have outgrown the normal capacity of
the South Branch of the Nashua River to properly dispose thereof.
In connection with the operation of works for this purpose the
pumping station was operated daily and the quantity of sewage
pumped to the filter-beds was equivalent to 1,050,000 gallons per
day throughout the year, which is 175,000 gallons per day less than
in 1916. This decrease in the quantity pumped was due to the
small flow in the Nashua River, which reduced the leakage of
ground water into the adjacent defective sections of the town
sewers.
The Blake compound duplex pump and the boiler, which have
been kept in reserve since the electrically-driven 12-inch DeLaval
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centrifugal pump was installed in 1912, were overhauled and re-
paired for use in case of emergency.
With the exception of two days, when the steam pump was being
operated on trials, all of the sewage was pumped with the centrifu-
gal pump. The pumping statistics are as follows
Total pumpage (gallons),
Average pumpage (gallons per day), .
Electric energy used (kilowatt hours),
Pumpage per kilowatt hour (gallons),
Average lift (feet),
Efficiency of pumping unit and transmission line (per cent.),
Coal used for burning sludge and heating (pounds),
Cost of pumping: —
Labor,
Electric energy at $5.30 per thousand kilowatt hours,
Coal for burning sludge and heating,
Repairs and supplies,
383,148,000
1,050,000
119,455
3,206
49.6
55.5
71,390
$1,043 04
633 11
198 88
176 13
Total for station, $2,051 16
Cost per million gallons,
Cost per million foot gallons,
$5.35
0.1079
Filters.
The filter-beds and settling basins were operated jointly daily
throughout the year by first passing the sewage through one of
B.ve settling basins the effluent from which was applied to the 25
one-acre sand filter-beds in regular doses of about 60,000 gallons
of sewage in 30 minutes, at intervals of about 1| days, equivalent
to about 41,000 gallons per acre per day. The cost of maintaining
the filters during 1917 was as follows: —
Labor,
Supplies and expenses, .
Total,
Cost per million gallons filtered, .
$5,034 66
265 34
$5,300 00
$13 83
The two wooden buildings and the woodwork on the carriers,
manholes and settling basins have been repaired and painted and
the concrete floors of the carriers have been repaired.
No. 57.]
AND SEWERAGE BOARD.
75
The character of the effluent, as shown in the following table,
has been much less satisfactory than in previous years, and the
operation of the beds has been difficult because the filtering material
has now become clogged with organic matter to a depth of 6 or
8 inches. Plans have been made to inaugurate measures for the
improvement of the condition of the filters during the coming
summer.
IParts per 100,000.]
1915.
1916.
1917.
January
to June.
July to
December.
Whole
Year.
Albuminoid ammonia, sewage,
1.4350
1.0255
.7170
1.0133
.8652
Albuminoid ammonia, effluent,
.09347
.0983
. 14675
.12985
.1383
Reduction, per cent.,
93.5
90
80
87
84
Oxygen consumed, sewage,
9.5333
7.70
7.27
7.97
7.62
Free ammonia, sewage, .
3.7867
2.7850
3.0013
3.9400
3.4707
Free ammonia, effluent, .
.5924
1.0316
1.8184
1.7133
1.7658
Reduction, per cent.,
84
63
39
57
49
Nitrogen as nitrates, effluent,
.7152
.3693
.2065
.1966
.20165
Iron, effluent, ....
.30815
1.052
1.710
2.363
2.036
Average quantity of sewage filtered, gal-
lons per day.
941,000
1,225,000
1,169,000
930,000
1,050,000
Forestry.
Wachusett Department.
An area of about 74 acres back of the Westerly portion of the
North Dike at the Wachusett Reservoir was cleared of a growth
of scrub oak and planted with white pine seedlings 4 years old from
the North Dike nursery. They were spaced 12 feet apart in rows
12 feet apart. It is planned to interplant these white pines with
red pines from the Oakdale nursery during 1918, making the com-
pleted plantings 6 feet x 6 feet.
As the main trunk lines of two divisions of the Boston & Maine
Railroad pass parallel to and about 500 feet distant from this area,
with only a highway 60 feet wide to prevent fires from spreading
to the planted area, an additional fire guard 50 feet wide on the
railroad side of the highway was cleared for a distance of 5,400
feet, and for 10 feet in width it was grubbed and plowed.
An area of 3f acres which was acquired in 1916, located near the
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terminal chamber of the Wachusett Aqueduct, was cleared and
planted with white pine seedlings 4 years old from the North Dike
nursery.
Along the open channel portion of the Wachusett Aqueduct in
Southborough and the marginal lands of the Wachusett Reservoir
in Clinton, Boylston and West Boylston 103§ acres of water works
land was planted with white pine seedlings 4 years old from the
North Dike nursery and white spruce seedlings 5 years old from
the Oakdale nursery. In this work 98,100 white pine and 1,300
white spruce seedlings were used. The cost of clearing the land
was $36.46 per acre and of planting the trees was $15.04 per
thousand.
In the fall 8,550 white pine seedlings 5 years old from the North
Dike nursery were planted to fill in where trees from previous
plantings had died, and about 700 white pine trees from 18 to 24
inches in height were set out on the sites of the three buildings
which were removed from water works land between High Street
and the Clinton sewerage filter-beds in Lancaster.
The necessary care has been given to the trees in the Oakdale
and North Dike nurseries, which at the end of the year contained
the following: —
Oakdale Nursery.
White pine seedlings, 3 years old, in transplant beds, . . . . 94,000
White pine seedlings, 2 years old, in transplant beds, .... 8,200
Scotch pine seedlings, 3 years old, in transplant beds, .... 41,400
Red pine seedlings, 3 years old, in transplant beds, 40,800
Red pine seedlings, 5 years old, in transplant beds, 120
Norway pine seedlings, 3 years old, in transplant beds, .... 200
Sequoia seedlings, 6 years old, in transplant beds, ..... 100
White spruce seedlings, 6 years old, in transplant beds, .... 11,100
Tamarack seedlings, 2 years old, in transplant beds, 5,800
Maple seedlings, 1 year old, transplanted from field, 750
Arbor vitse seedlings, 2 years old, in seed beds, 400
North Dike Nursery.
White pine seedlings, 5 years old, in transplant beds,
White pine seedlings, 3 years old, in transplant beds,
202,870
6,500
37,500
44,000
No. 57.] AND SEWERAGE BOARD. 77
The sprouts and undergrowth which were interfering with the
pines on about 69 acres of land planted during the last five years
were cut and disposed of at a cost of about $22 per acre.
About 350 acres of land along the main highways about the
Wachusett Reservoir and at the dam, known to be infested with
the gypsy moth, was sprayed with 8,500 pounds of arsenate of lead
between June 2 and July 7, at a cost of $1,726.42. This work was
done with the power sprayer auto truck, which was thoroughly
overhauled and equipped with a 40-horse power Waukesha motor
early in the year before the beginning of the spraying season.
The work of scouting the marginal lands of the reservoir for
gypsy moth egg clusters and painting them with creosote, begun in
the fall of 1916, was continued through the winter; it was then
suspended and was resumed in the late fall. At the close of the
year about 2,500 acres of land had been covered and most of the
land had been gone over a second time. About 245,000 egg clusters
were found and painted at a cost of $926.10.
During July and August many of the plantings on the marginal
lands around the reservoir were inspected for the pine-tree weevil
on two occasions. During the first inspection 2,540 leaders were
cut and burned and 380 during the second inspection. The number
of leaders attacked was much fewer than during previous years,
due to the fact that as the trees become older the weevil gradually
disappears. The cost of the work was $81.27.
A thorough inspection of the white pine forests on the marginal
lands of the Wachusett Reservoir was made during the year by
experts from the Nursery Inspection Department of the Common-
wealth, but no evidence of white pine blister rust was found.
It has been noticed that the brown-tail moth has entirely dis-
appeared from the water works land in this department.
The total cost of protecting the trees and plantings from insects
and disease during the year was $2,736.40.
The usual fire patrol service was maintained during the spring
and fall seasons. On April 16 the only fire of any consequence
occurred. Seven acres of land on the easterly side of Beaman
Street, West Boylston, was burned over and about 8,000 white
pines from 3 to 10 feet in height were destroyed.
The brush, grass and weeds on If miles of the marginal fire
guard, which is 40 feet wide, and on 31 f miles of forest roads from
15 to 45 feet wide, were mowed and burned at a cost of $1,150.84.
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At the close of the year the water works land in the Wachusett
watershed may be classified as follows : —
Forest lands acquired and not since improved (acres) ,
Forest lands acquired and since improved (acres),
Land which has been planted with trees and not cleared (acres) ,
Land which has been planted with trees and since cleared (acres),
Land to be planted with trees (acres),
Open land which will probably not be planted (acres) ,
Marginal strip along shore of the reservoir (acres), .
1,365
324
399
1,098
584
811
209
Total, 4,790
The total expenditures for forestry during the year in the Wachu-
sett Department were $13,693.31.
Sudbury Department.
At the Sudbury Reservoir about 26 acres of land on Pine Hill
on the northerly side of the reservoir and about 2 acres east of the
junction of the Framingham, Marlborough and Acre Bridge roads
was cleared of small trees and brush in preparation for transplant-
ing pine seedlings. All of the large trees were cut into cord wood
and the limbs and brush were burned. The cost of the work was
$22 per acre.
The lower limbs of the pine trees on the south side of the reser-
voir and west of the dam were cut off and grass and brush growing
between the pines and the roads were burned to protect the pines
from fire.
In May and June 49,300 white pines 3 years old, 43,700 Scotch
pines 3 years old, 44,050 red pines 3 years old and 43,500 white
spruces 4 years old were field planted from the nursery. Fifty
thousand white pine seedlings 2 years old were received from the
nursery of the State Forester's department at Barnstable and set
out in the new water works nursery on the Ball land for use in
field planting during the coming season.
Quite a number of field planted pines about 2\ feet in height
were taken up and transplanted on adjacent land in connection
with the work of clearing for the Wachusett-Sudbury transmission
line.
Fire patrol service was maintained at times when the conditions
were favorable for fires to spread rapidly, and where pine trees
No. 57.] AND SEWERAGE BOARD. 79
have been planted along the highways the dried grass and brush
were mowed, or burned if conditions were favorable, between the
highway and the plantings.
Two fires occurred at the Sudbury Reservoir: one on April 24,
which burned over two acres of planted land and destroyed 2,400
white pines about 2\ feet in height; the other, on May 11, burned
over | of an acre of grass land and caused no damage.
The sprouts and brush along the Weston Aqueduct between Mill-
wood Street and the entrance to Tunnel No. 3 in Framingham
and at some other places where they were high enough to hinder
the growth of the field planted pines were mowed.
Fifteen hundred white pines 3 years old from the nursery at the
Sudbury Reservoir were set out west of Edgell Street, in Nobscot,
and 1,500 were set out on the gravel slope between the aqueduct and
the old Connecticut Path near Cochituate Road in Wayland.
The trees at the Sudbury and Framingham reservoirs, at Lake
Cochituate and at the White place and siphon chamber No. 2 on
the Weston Aqueduct were sprayed with arsenate of lead to pro-
tect them from the gypsy moth and other insects. A horse-drawn
power sprayer was used for this work. It was in use about one
month. Ten thousand pounds of arsenate of lead was used and
the total cost of the work was $1,900.84.
Some time was spent scouting for gypsy moth egg clusters and
painting them with creosote. About 120,000 clusters were found
and painted at a cost of $500.
The plantings in the Sudbury Department were inspected for the
pine-tree weevil and the leaders were cut and destroyed where the
weevil was found. The cost of the work was about $275.00.
The brown-tail moth caterpillars were destroyed within 50 feet
of the highways at the Sudbury and Framingham reservoirs and
where found in connection with spraying operations.
The total amount expended for forestry in the Sudbury Depart-
ment during the year was $7,596.44.
Pipe Lines and Reservoirs Department.
The gypsy and brown-tail moths and the elm-leaf beetles were
destroyed on water works lands around the distribution reservoirs
as in former years by spraying the foliage with arsenate of lead in
June and July, by painting the gypsy moth egg clusters with creo-
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sote and cutting and burning the webs of the brown-tail moth
during the winter.
The spraying was done with a power sprayer drawn by two horses
and an area of approximately 140 acres was covered. Five thousand,
four hundred and thirty pounds of arsenate of lead in paste form
was used, and was mixed in the proportion of 10 pounds of paste
to 100 gallons of water.
Oyster scale, found on the shrubs at Chestnut Hill Reservoir,
was destroyed by using Scalecide and Arlington oil.
The leaders were cut from some of the pine trees at the Weston
Reservoir which were attacked by the pine-tree weevil.
The total expenditures for forestry in the Pipe Lines and Reser-
voirs Department was $3,821.86.
Hydro-electric Service.
The total quantity of electric energy delivered during the year
from the two hydro-electric stations which are operated in connec-
tion with the Metropolitan Water Works, was 11,942,769 kilowatt
hours.
The total value of this energy at the contract prices is $67,961.93.
The total expenses chargeable to both stations are $35,530.24,
leaving a profit from the operation of the stations of $32,431.69,
equivalent to $2,715 per thousand kilowatt hours.
Wachusett Power Station.
The Wachusett power station was operated on 299 days during
the year. The energy not used in connection with the operation
of the Metropolitan Water Works was sold to the New England
Power Company under an agreement made September 30, 1916,
which provides that until the completion of the Wachusett-Sudbury
transmission line the Company will take as much energy from the
Wachusett power station as it can reasonably and properly use
without wasting water at its own plants. Under this arrangement
99.1 per cent, of the total amount of water drawn from the reser-
voir into the Wachusett Aqueduct was used to develop electric
energy. This is the largest portion of the total water drawn into
the aqueduct that has been used for the development of electricity
in any year since the station was put into regular service in 1911.
No. 57.] AND SEWERAGE BOARD. 81
On August 21 an unusually severe electrical storm damaged one
of the lightning arrester units and caused other minor damage to
the plant, but temporary repairs were readily made and there was
only a short interruption of the regular service during and imme-
diately after the storm.
During the latter part of the year the electrical apparatus was
carefully inspected and all meters were tested and accurately adjusted
by engineers from the testing laboratory of the Edison Electric
Illuminating Company of Boston.
The Wachusett power station statistics for the year 1917 are as
follows : —
Total energy developed (kilowatt hours), 7,043,836
Energy used at power station (kilowatt hours), . . . 11,862
Available energy (kilowatt hours), 7,031,974
Water used (gallons), 32,595,100,000
Average head (feet), .......... 95.9
Energy developed per million foot gallons (kilowatt hours), . 2.25
Efficiency of station (per cent.), 71.71
Credits: —
Energy sold New England Power Company,
6,912,519 kilowatt hours at $0.0053, . . . $36,636 35
Energy furnished Clinton sewerage pumping
station, 119,455 kilowatt hours at $0.0053, 633 11
Charges : —
Superintendence, .
Labor, operating station,
Repairs and supplies for station,
Taxes,
Administration, general supervision, interest and
sinking fund,
Profit,
Cost of available energy per thousand kilowatt hours,
$37,269 46
$720 00
5,381 56
1,262 42
$7,363 98
3,025 00
1
6,560 00
16,948 98
.
$20,320 48
•s, . . .
$2,410
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Sudbury Power Station.
As the Sudbury power station was put into service late in 1916
considerable miscellaneous work was necessary during 1917 to get
all of the accessories in satisfactory condition. A Morse silent
chain drive was substituted for the noisy herring-bone gears on the
oil pump of the hydraulic governor equipment. Remote control
devices were installed for opening the oil drain valves on the two
750 kilowatt transformers from points near the switchboard. Oil
gage glasses were put on the generators and an air receiver 21 inches
in diameter and 6 feet high was installed with hose and nozzle for
blowing dust out of generator coils and other inaccessible places.
As the mechanism furnished by the Coffin Valve Company in
1916 for operating the sluice gates did not give the guaranteed re-
sults the Company this year installed larger electric motors, sub-
stituted some new gears and relined and rebabitted the bearings on
the gate stands and they now operate the gates in a satisfactory
manner.
Water supply and toilet facilities were installed, and window and
door screens were provided for use in warm weather.
A pipe line consisting of 434 feet of 2-inch iron pipe and 456
feet of 4-inch vitrified clay pipe with open joints was laid to con-
nect the tight cesspool which receives the sewage from the power
station with a filtering cesspool located in a gravel pit on the water
works land well removed from the water supply. As often as the
tight cesspool fills it is emptied into the filtering cesspool through
the pipe line by means of a portable Swaby centrifugal pump with
a capacity of 30 gallons per minute, operated by a If -horse power
Brown wall air-cooled gasoline engine which was purchased for pump-
ing out culverts on the aqueduct lines.
During a severe electric storm which passed over the station on
August 21 several porcelain insulators were broken on the main
circuit breaker and other minor damage was done by lightning.
The entire output, with the exception of a small amount of energy
used for lighting the station and operating the electrically driven
accessories, has been sold to the Edison Electric Illuminating Com-
pany of Boston under a contract dated December 21, 1914. The
station is not regularly operated on Sundays or legal holidays.
All of the water discharged from the Sudbury Reservoir, with
No. 57.] AND SEWERAGE BOARD. 83
the exception of 13,500,000 gallons, which was wasted at the over-
flow on February 27 and 28, was used for the development of
electric energy.
The Sudbury power station statistics are as follows : —
Total energy developed (kilowatt hours), 4,928,900
Energy used at power station (kilowatt hours), .... 18,105
Available energy (kilowatt hours), 4,910,795
Framingham Reservoir No. 3 service: —
Water used (gallons), 19,671,600,000
Average head (feet), 66.00
Weston Aqueduct service : —
Water used (gallons), 19,008,800,000
Average head (feet), 39.10
Energy developed per million foot gallons (kilowatt hours), . 2.41
Efficiency of station (per cent.), 76.80
Credit: —
Energy sold Edison Electric Illuminating Company of
Boston, 4,910,795 kilowatt hours at $0.00625, . . . $30,692 47
Charges: —
Superintendence, $1,19-0 00
Labor, operating station, 8,294 25
Repairs and supplies for station, .... 1,583 01
$11,067 26
Taxes, 1,054 00
Administration, general supervision, interest
and sinking fund, 6,460 00
18,581 26
Profit, $12,111 21
Cost of available energy per thousand kilowatt hours, . $3 . 784
Distribution Pumping Service.
The total quantity of water pumped at the five distribution
pumping stations during the year was 23,608,020,000 gallons, which
is 1,568,750,000 gallons or 7.12 per cent, more than the quantity
pumped in 1916. The total quantity of water supplied to the Metro-
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politan Water District in 1917 was 40,161,778,000 gallons or 3.19
per cent, more than in 1916, and of this quantity 58.14 per cent,
was pumped for the southern high and low and the northern high
and extra high-service districts, and 0.65 per cent, was repumped
for the southern extra high-service district.
The total cost of operating all of the stations for the year 1917
was $132,331.03, which is $34,491.12 more than for 1916. This
increase includes $8,540.91 for labor, $20,150.63 for fuel, $5,141.32
for repairs, $211.60 for oil and waste and $446.66 for small supplies.
The increase for labor is due in part to the employment of five
additional men on account of increased work at some of the stations,
and so that no employee would be alone on a watch when the
machinery was in motion, and in part to a general increase of ten
per cent, in wages which has been effective since May 27. The
other increases are due almost entirely to the increased cost of
materials and supplies.
The amount of coal purchased from various parties for the pump-
ing stations and the cost of the coal is as follows: —
Stations (Amount in
Gross Tons).
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E. Russell Norton, bituminous, ....
967.28
-
-
-
-
$4 51
E. Russell Norton, bituminous, .
36.61
"~
-
-
-
4 89
E. Russell Norton, bituminous, .
-
1,278.75
-
-
-
4 36
Shaftsbury Coal & Coke Co., bituminous,
490.31
-
-
-
-
7 65
Shaftsbury Coal & Coke Co., bituminous,
- ,
1,506.43
-
-
-
7 37
John E. Cousens Coal Co., bituminous,
-
108.285
-
-
-
10 51
C. W. Claflin & Co., anthracite screenings,
271.74
-
-
-
-
4 21
C. W. Claflin & Co., anthracite screenings,
-
350.52
-
-
-
3 25
Dexter & Carpenter Inc., anthracite screenings, .
473.59
-
-
-
-
4 47
Dexter & Carpenter Inc., anthracite screenings, .
-
1,241 26
-
-
-
4 29
H. N. Hartwell & Son Inc., anthracite screenings,
-
141.47
-
-
-
4 11
E. Russell Norton, bituminous, ....
-
-
640.98
-
-
9 49
1 Hoisted from cars and wheeled to bins. 2 Dumped from cars into bins.
8 Unloaded at freight yard, teamed VA miles and dumped into bins.
4 Includes cost of unloading coal from cars and all expenses incidental to the storage of the coal except as
otherwise noted.
5 Delivered at station by truck.
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85
Stations (Amount in - Gross Tons).
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E. Russell Norton, bituminous, ....
-
-
205. 20 6
-
-
6 64
Shaftsbury Coal & Coke Co., bituminous, .
-
-
12.616
-
-
9 14
Locke Coal Co., anthracite screenings,
-
-
493.05
-
-
5 39
Peirce & Winn Co., bituminous, ....
-
-
-
40. 91 5
-
9 60
E. Russell Norton, bituminous
-
-
-
48.08
-
8 26
Shaftsbury Coal & Coke Co., bituminous, .
-
-
-
199.91
-
7 70
Garfield & Proctor Coal Co., bituminous, .
-
-
-
153.81
-
4 56
Dexter & Carpenter Inc., anthracite screenings, .
-
-
-
161.10
-
4 92
C. W. Claflin & Co., anthracite screenings, .
-
-
-
79.75
-
4 07
E. Russell Norton, bituminous, ....
-
-
-
-
37.05
8 84
Garfield & Proctor Coal Co., bituminous, .
-
-
-
-
88.66
4 40
Sawtelle Coal Co., anthracite screenings,
-
-
-
-
45. 04 5
5 32
Roxbury Coal Co., anthracite screenings,
-
-
-
-
83.565
3 92
Roxbury Coal Co., anthracite screenings,
-
-
-
-
44.645
3 64
Sawtelle Coal Co. , anthracite screenings,
-
-
-
-
36.34 5
3 64
Total, bituminous, . . . . .
1,494.20
2,893.46
858.79
442.71
125.71
-
Total, anthracite screenings
745.33
1,733.25
493.05
240.85
209.58
-
Average cost, bituminous: —
In bins,
$5 55
$6 16
$8 81
$6 85
$5 71
-
On cars, . .
5 25
6 03
-
6 75
5 52
-
Average cost, anthracite screenings: —
In bins, . . . ...
4 38
4 06
5 39
4 64
4 11
-
On cars,
4 11
3 89
-
4 47
-
-
1 Hoisted from cars and wheeled to bins. 2 Dumped from cars into bins.
3 Unloaded at freight yard, teamed V/i miles and dumped into bins.
4 Includes cost of unloading coal from cars and all expenses incidental to the storage of the coal except as
otherwise noted.
6 Delivered at station by truck.
6 Hoisted from cars, dumped into trucks, transported 13 miles and dumped into bins.
During the first half of the year the bituminous coal was pur-
chased under contracts made in 1916 and specifications which had
been in use for several years. Under these contracts the price per
gross ton was reduced 2 cents for each 50 heat units or fraction
thereof less than 14,700 per pound of dry coal and 1 cent for each
one-half of 1 per cent, or fraction thereof of ash in the dry coal
86 METROPOLITAN WATER [Pub. Doc.
in excess of 8 per cent.; and for each 50 heat units or fraction
thereof in excess of 14,800 per pound of dry coal the price per ton
was increased 1 cent, and weights of coal as received at Chestnut
Hill pumping stations were corrected for moisture in excess of 3
per cent.
During the last half of the year bituminous coal was purchased
for the Spot Pond pumping station under similar specifications,
with standards of 14,500 and 14,600 heat units per pound of dry
coal, but for the Chestnut Hill and Arlington pumping stations the
bituminous coal was purchased under revised specifications which
provided that the price should vary in direct proportion with the
heating value from a basis of 14,300 heat units per pound of dry
coal, and in inverse proportion with the percentage of ash from a
basis of 9 per cent.; and for the Chestnut Hill pumping station
the weight of coal as received was corrected to a standard of 3 per
cent, moisture.
During the first half of the year the anthracite screenings were
not purchased under specifications, but during the last half of the
year screenings were purchased under specifications which provided
that the quality of the dry coal should approximate a standard
of 12,500 heat units per pound, 9 per cent, volatile matter and less
than 16 per cent, ash, and that for each one-half of 1 per cent,
or fraction thereof of ash in the dry coal in excess of 20 per cent,
the price per gross ton should be decreased 2 cents and coal which
contained more than 25 per cent, of ash might be rejected.
Contracts made during the last half of the year contained a pro-
vision that the Commonwealth would assume the payment of all
increases in freight charges that might take effect during the term
of the contract.
During July we were unable to obtain shipments of bituminous
coal from the mines to the Chestnut Hill pumping station in suffi-
cient quantity to supply our needs and it became necessary to
purchase 108 gross tons from a local dealer.
Before the 1917 contracts were made for coal for the pumping
stations an investigation was made to see if it would be advanta-
geous to substitute fuel oil for coal and it was found that there was
fully as much uncertainty about obtaining the oil when needed as
there was about obtaining the coal, and that the cost of making
steam would be increased if fuel oil should be used.
No. 57.]
AND SEWERAGE BOARD.
87
The results of analyses of the bituminous coal purchased for the
pumping stations during 1917 are as follows: —
Kind of Coal.
Number
of Samples
tested.
British
Thermal
Units.
Percent-
age of
Volatile
Matter.
Percent-
age
of Ash.
Percent-
age of
Moisture.
Percent-
age
of Fixed
Carbon.
Davenport, ....
Ake Mine, . .
Peacock, ....
Wendell, ....
35
28
5
1
14,590
14,157
14,206
14,483
19.46
23.50
20.81
20.56
7.76
10.17
10.17
8.55
2.71
4.18
3.96
2.40
72.78
66.33
69.02
70.89
Chestnut Hill Pumping Stations.
A 2| kilowatt direct-current electric generator was installed at
Chestnut Hill pumping station No. 1 and is operated from the
Pelton water wheel for lighting the machine shop and store room,
the garage and the basements and other places at both stations,
which did not receive illumination during the day time when the
main lighting plant was not in operation.
A double-coil feed-water heater has been purchased for utilizing
the exhaust steam from the dynamo engine at station No. 2 but
has not yet been installed. It will replace the heater now in use
temporarily, belonging in station No. 1 which is now held in re-
serve most of the time. One of the coils in the new heater has a
heating surface of 40 square feet for heating the feed water to the
low-service boilers and the other coil has a heating surface of 60
square feet for heating the feed water to the high-service boilers.
The 4-inch cast-iron flange pipe blow-off drain from the boilers
at station No. 2, which was broken in several places, was relaid
with 4-inch bell and spigot cast-iron pipe with lead joints for the
entire length of 105 feet inside of the station. In connection with
this work brick walls were carried down below the floor on both
sides of the pipe, the bottom of the trench was covered with broken
stone and removable concrete slabs were set in the floor above the
pipe to form a conduit so that in the future leaks may be readily
repaired.
All outside overhead electric wires about the pumping stations
were removed and put in underground conduits and a private tele-
phone system with six stations was installed for use between the
various buildings.
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At these stations a daily average of 36,216,100 gallons of water
was pumped to supply the southern high-service district and the
southern extra high-service pumping station, and a daily average
of 19,216,400 gallons was pumped to supply the southern low-service
district. Compared with the pumpage of 1916 this is an increase
of 1,844,800 gallons per day for the high service. The low-service
pumpage in 1916 and in 1917 was not directly comparable because
a portion of the supply for the low-service district was at times
delivered by gravity from the Weston Aqueduct supply mains.
The pumping statistics for 1917 are as follows: —
/
Southern High-service Statistics.
Pumping Station No. 1.
Pumping
Station
No. 2.
Engines
Nos.
1 and 2.
Engine
No. 3.
Engine
No. 4.
Engine
No. 12.
Totals.
Daily pumping capacity (gallons),
16,000,000
20,000,000
30,000,000
40,000,000
106,000,000
Total quantity pumped (million gallons), .
1,016.02
10.02
2,824.12
9,368.71
13,218.87
Daily average quantity pumped (gallons), .
2,783,600
27,500
7,737,300
25,667,700
36,216,100
Bituminous coal used in pumping (pounds),
1,490,563
17,414
1,415,349
3,925,849
6,849,175
Anthracite screenings used in pumping
(pounds).
Average lift (feet),
582,980
133.48
2,600
116.65
577,301
120.36
2,316,677
121.70
3,479,558
122.32
Cost of pumping: —
Labor,
S4.888.09 1
S47.69 1
$6,986.38!
$10,844.26 2
$22,766.42
Fuel,
6,013.11
49.06
4,716.21
15,589.24
26,367.62
Repairs,
1,427.05
12.40
1,888.82
2,106.26
5,434.53
Oil, waste and packing, ....
97.43
.90
139.83
400.23
638.39
Small supplies,
151.35
1.48
216.33
195.79
564.95
Totals,
$12,577.03
$111.53
$13,947.57
$29,135.78
$55,771.91
Cost per million gallons pumped,
$12.3787
$11.1307
$4.9387
$3.1099
$4.2191
Cost per million foot gallons,
.0927
.0954
.0410
.0256
.0345
1 Operation and care of station with machinery held in reserve a large portion of the time.
2 Operation only.
No. 57.]
AND SEWERAGE BOARD.
89
Southern Low-service Statistics.
Daily pumping capacity each engine (gallons),
Total quantity pumped (gallons),
Daily average quantity pumped (gallons),
Bituminous coal used (pounds),
Anthracite screenings used (pounds),
Average lift (feet),
Chestnut Hill
Pumping Station
No. 2. — Engines
Nos. 5, 6 and 7.
35,000,000
7,013,970,000
19,216,400
2,384,400
1,470,210
33.24
Cost of pumping: —
Labor, .
Fuel, .
Repairs, . . . .
Oil, waste and packing,
Small supplies,
Total, .
Cost per million gallons pumped,
Cost per million foot gallons,
$16,609 56
9,571 76
3,860 28
263 71
231 70
$30,537 01
$4.3537
.1310
Spot Pond Pumping Station.
During the year the lockers, wash bowls and shower baths lo-
cated in the basement below the engine-room were enclosed by
wooden partitions and a heating coil was installed so that the room
can be comfortably heated during cold weather without heating the
entire basement.
Orders were placed during the year for an 18-inch Pelton water
wheel and a 2\ kilowatt direct-current generator for lighting the
station during the night when the steam plant is not in operation
and for lighting the department house, which is located near the
station, and will be occupied by the foreman in charge of the reser-
voirs and grounds in this vicinity; for a Hagan steam-jet ash con-
veyor, which will discharge the ashes into a steel storage tank
elevated so that a truck can be driven under it and loaded through
a hopper in the bottom of the tank, and for a Venturi meter and
register for measuring the boiler feed water. Owing to delays in
delivery of materials, none of these improvements has been com-
pleted.
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METROPOLITAN WATER
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All of the water supplied to the northern high-service district
during the year was pumped at this station with the exception of
a supply for the towns of Swampscott and Nahant from 7.45 a.m.
December 23 to 5.30 p.m. December 24, while a break in the 16-
inch northern high-service main in Broadway, Revere, was being
repaired.
The northern high-service pumping statistics for 1917 are as
follows : —
Total quantity pumped (gallons) ,
Daily average quantity pumped (gallons),
Bituminous coal used (pounds), .
Anthracite screenings used (pounds),
Average lift (feet), ....
Engine No. 8 operated (hours), .
Engine No. 9 operated (hours), .
Quantity pumped by Engine No. 8 (gallons),
Quantity pumped by Engine No. 9 (gallons) ,
Cost of pumping: —
Labor, .
Fuel, .
Repairs, .
Oil, waste and packing,
Small supplies,
2,802,560,000
7,678,200
1,878,768
997,431
130.08
155
3,260
68,840,000
2,733,720,000
$10,698 99
9,358 07
2,324 30
343 00
316 58
Total for station, $23,040 94
Cost per million gallons pumped, $8.2214
Cost per million foot gallons, . 0632
Arlington Pumping Station.
All of the water for the northern extra high-service district was
pumped at the Arlington pumping station from the northern low-
service mains. The pumping statistics for 1917 are as follows: —
Total quantity pumped (gallons),
Daily average quantity pumped (gallons),
Bituminous cOal used (pounds),
Anthracite screening used (pounds) ,
Average lift (feet),
Engine No. 10 operated (hours),
Engine No. 11 operated (hours),
Quantity pumped by Engine No. lb (gallons),
Quantity pumped by Engine No. 11 (gallons),
313,230,000
858,200
902,040
378,920
282.61
6,273
225
305,410,000
7,820,000
No. 57.]
AND SEWERAGE BOARD.
91
Cost of pumping : —
Labor, . . . ■ .
Fuel, . . ., ...
Repairs, ....
Oil, waste and packing,
Small supplies,
Total for station, .
Cost per million gallons pumped,
Cost per million foot gallons,
$8,805 91
3,580 16
886 48
159 68
227 68
$13,659 91
$43.6098
.1543
Hyde Park Pumping Station.
All of the water for the southern extra high-service district was
pumped at the Hyde Park station from the southern high-service
mains. The pumping statistics for 1917 are as follows: —
Total quantity pumped (gallons),
Daily average quantity pumped (gallons) ,
Bituminous coal used (pounds),
Anthracite screenings used (pounds),
Average lift (feet), ....
Engine No. 13 operated (hours),
Engine No. 14 operated (hours),
Quantity pumped by Engine No. 13 (gallons),
Quantity pumped by Engine No. 14 (gallons),
Cost of pumping: —
Labor, .
Fuel, . . " .. .
Repairs, .
Oil, waste and packing,
Small supplies,
Total for station,
259,390,000
710,700
258,249
412,746
133.17
996
3,229
60,850,000
198,540,000
$7,424 18
1,277 6'9
243 63
140 66
235 10
$9,321 26
Cost per million gallons pumped,
Cost per million foot gallons,
$35.9353
.2698
Additional information regarding the operation of the pumping
engines at the various stations is given on pages 169 to 178.
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METROPOLITAN WATER
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Distribution Reservoirs.
The locations and elevations of the distribution reservoirs of the
Metropolitan Water Works are shown by the following table : —
Distribution Reservoirs and Locations.
Elevation of
High Water, i
Capacity in
Gallons.
Low Service: —
Chestnut Hill Reservoir, Brighton District of Boston,
Mystic Reservoir, Medford,
Northern High Service: —
Fells Reservoir, Stoneham, .
Bear Hill Reservoir, Stoneham,
Northern Extra High Service: —
Arlington Standpipe, Arlington,
Southern High Service: —
Fisher Hill Reservoir, Brookline,
Waban Hill Reservoir,. Newton,
Forbes Hill Reservoir, Quincy,
Forbes Hill Standpipe, Quincy,
Southern Extra High Service: —
Bellevue Reservoir Steel Tank, West Roxbury District of Boston, .
163.00
134.00
200.00
157.00
271.00
300.00
442.00
251.00
264.50
192.00
251.00
375.00
1,791,700,000
300,000,000
200,000,000
26,200,000
41,400,000
2,450,000
550,000
15,500,000
13,500,000
5,100,000
330,000
2,500,000
Total,
-
2,399,230,000
1 Elevation in feet above Boston City Base.
By arrangement with the city of Chelsea a portion of the main-
tenance of its reservoir on Powder Horn Hill is assumed by the
department, and the reservoir is used by the department when
necessary in connection with the supplying of water to the northern
high-service district. This reservoir has a capacity of 1,000,000 gal-
lons with high-water line at elevation 196.6. The reservoir was in
service from January 5 to May 19 and from November 30 to the
end of the year, and was kept full for emergency use when not
actually in service.
Water is delivered into the Chestnut Hill Reservoir from the
storage reservoirs by gravity and is pumped from that reservoir
for the low-service and southern high-service districts.
No. 57.] AND SEWERAGE BOARD. 93
Water is delivered from the Sudbury Reservoir through the Weston
Aqueduct by gravity and is then supplied to the low-service works
through the Weston Aqueduct supply mains by gravity.
Water for the northern high-service district is pumped from Spot
Pond to the Fells and Bear Hill reservoirs. For the northern extra
high-service district water is pumped from the low-service pipe
lines to the steel tank at Arlington Heights and for the southern
extra high-service water is pumped from the southern high-service
pipe lines to the Bellevue Reservoir.
Weston Reservoir.
At the Weston Reservoir the inlet chamber, open channel, reser-
voir lands and screen chamber were cared for, and the walks, drive-
ways, drains and fences were given the necessary attention.
The cellar hole where the attendant's house was removed in 1916
was filled and, together with the old roadway leading to the house,
was graded and sown with grass seed. The ironwork at the screen
chamber and Ash Street bridge and the stop-planks at the screen
chamber were painted.
Chestnut Hill, Fisher Hill and Waban Hill Reservoirs.
The regular work of caring for the gate-houses and screens, shrubs,
walks, drives and grounds at the Chestnut Hill, Fisher Hill and
Waban Hill reservoirs was attended to as usual.
At the Chestnut Hill Reservoir both basins have been in use
throughout the year. The portion of the driveway between the
Lawrence and Bradlee basins which was repaired last year was given
a final surfacing of Tarvia and fine broken stone at a cost of 10
cents per square yard.
The iron pipe rails of the new fence built last year along Beacon
Street on the south shore of Bradlee basin were painted with two
coats of red lead paint and one coat of green paint.
The superstructure of the masonry garage which was under con-
struction at the close of 1916 was completed by the contractor June
21, at a cost of $8,029.85. The plumbing, steam heating apparatus
and electric light wiring were installed by the department forces
and the garage is now entirely completed, but a little grading re-
mains to be done around the building.
The pumping stations and stable have received the usual attention.
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The high Forsythia plants in the large bed at Waban Hill Reser-
voir at the junction of Manet Road and Ward Street were removed
and replaced with 34 low Cotoneaster plants, because of the danger
from an obstructed view at this corner.
Some repairs were made to the gate-house at the Fisher Hill
Reservoir and the interior was cleaned and painted.
Spot Pond, Fells and Bear Hill Reservoirs.
The usual attention was given to the gate-houses and screens at
Spot Pond and the Fells and Bear Hill reservoirs, and to the pro-
tection of the trees and care of the water works land at Spot Pond.
Steam-heating apparatus has been installed in the department
house at Spot Pond and electric supplies have been purchased for
use in installing electric lighting service from the pumping station.
The row boat and motor boat were painted and varnished, the
engine in the motor boat was overhauled and put in good condition
and the boat-house and tool-house were painted. The foot paths
have been resurfaced with cinders.
Bellevue and Forbes Hill Reservoirs.
The Bellevue Reservoir has been in service throughout the year.
The grading and seeding of the area about the reservoir, which
was disturbed during its construction, was completed and a re-
movable closet was erected around the Venturi meter and recording
gage to prevent the water in the small pressure pipes from freezing
during cold weather.
At Forbes Hill the steel tank has been, in regular use all the year
and the reservoir has been held full of water for emergency use.
The iron stairs leading to the top of the tower were scraped and
painted and the interior of the gate-chamber has been cleaned and
painted. In connection with the rebuilding of the fence on the south
side of the reservoir lot 49 4-inch x 4-inch reinforced concrete posts
faced with hard pine strips have been set 16| feet apart ready for
the galvanized iron wire, which has been received but has not been
strung because workmen have not been available.
No. 57.] AND SEWERAGE BOARD. 95
Arlington and Mystic Reservoirs.
Some minor repairs were made to the stairway leading to the top
of the Arlington standpipe, which has been in service throughout
the year. The grounds around the standpipe have been cared for
by the town of Arlington under an agreement made with this de-
partment.
The Mystic Reservoir was not in service during the year but has
been kept full of water for emergency use. The roadway around
the reservoir has been resurfaced. Early in July the two long
flights of steps on the northwesterly embankment were removed and
entrance to the remaining steps was closed with wire fencing and
" no admittance " signs were posted.
Mystic Lake, Conduit and Pumping Station.
Since these structures were abandoned for water supply purposes
in 1898 they have been given only such attention as is necessary
to keep them in proper repair.
At Mystic Lake the gate-house was painted and the bridge over
the dam at the outlet was repaired. Some additional stone bounds
were set to define the boundaries of the water works land. Wire
was strung on the fence posts set last year for a distance of 826
feet south of the lake and 560 feet of standard wire fencing was
erected on the northerly side.
Extensive repairs were partially completed at the house near the
station. The clapboards and finish were removed and the building
was covered with stucco lathing, a piazza was built on the front
of the house and a porch 12 feet wide over the front door. These
were also covered with stucco lathing and the whole exterior except
the rear of the house was given a coat of three-ply stucco work.
Grounds at Arlington and Hyde Park Pumping Stations.
At the Arlington and Hyde Park pumping stations the lawns and
shrubs have been given the usual attention. The side track at the
Arlington station was repaired by the Boston & Maine Railroad at
a cost to this department of $56.98, and the siding at the Hyde
Park station was repaired by the New York, New Haven & Hart-
ford Railroad at a cost to this department of $236.74.
During the latter part of the year the exterior woodwork at the
96 METROPOLITAN WATER [Pub. Doc.
Arlington pumping station was given two coats of paint at a cost
of $164, and the exterior woodwork at the Hyde Park pumping
station was also given two coats of paint at a cost of $136.55.
Protection of Water Supply.
Special watchmen were employed at the Chestnut Hill, Fells,
Mystic and Bear Hill reservoirs and at Spot Pond, as required during
the year, to prevent violation of the sanitary rules and regulations.
Distribution Pipe Lines.
The length of distribution pipe lines owned and operated by the
department at the close of the year is 122.34 miles, an increase of
0.07 of a mile during the year. In connection with the maintenance
of the pipe lines they have been regularly patrolled and the work of
municipalities and public service corporations in the vicinity of the
pipe lines has been inspected. The location of each valve chamber
has been plainly stenciled on objects along the line so that valves
can be readily found when desired. The valves have been kept
in good working condition, the valve chambers were cleaned and the
frames and covers were regulated to conform to the grades of the
streets where necessary. The covers over important valves were
covered with salt during cold weather to keep them free from ice.
In connection with the laying of granite block pavement on con-
crete base in Williams Street near Broadway, by the city of Chelsea,
a section of the 20-inch main which was laid by the city of Boston
in 1849 and acquired by this department in 1899 was relocated for
a distance of 170 feet, where it was laid with shallow cover over
the 24-inch main which is also located at this place. The cost of
this work was $953.63.
For the improvement of the supply to the Hyde Park district of
the city of Boston, connection was made December 8 between the
Metropolitan Water Works 20-inch southern high-service main and
the local main in Hyde Park Avenue at Glenwood Street. A 12-
inch gate valve and a check valve w r ere installed on this connection.
Pipe Bridges.
Extensive repairs w r ere made to the pipe boxes at the bridges over
both branches of the Pines River in Revere and Saugus in connection
with the repairs made by the Massachusetts Highway Commission
No. 57.] AND SEWERAGE BOARD. 97
at these bridges. The work included the removal of the main tim-
bers on the sides of the box and part of the flooring and all of the
top at the bridge over the northern branch of the river, and the
boxes at both bridges were thoroughly cleaned and painted. The
cost of these repairs was $551.31.
In August the pipe box was rebuilt at the bridge over the Boston
& Maine Railroad tracks at Massachusetts Avenue in Cambridge, a
new floor was laid and sealed with pitch and tar to make it smoke
proof and the old top of the box was repaired and replaced. The
cost of this work was $449.09.
Minor repairs have been made at most of the other pipe boxes
and bridges which are now all in good condition with the exception
of the box at the Chelsea North Bridge where extensive repairs are
necessary.
Pipe Yards.
Pipe yards have been maintained at the Chestnut Hill Reservoir
and near the Glen wood Station of the Boston & Maine Railroad in
Medford as in former years. Minor repairs have been made to the
office, carpenter shop and storage-shed at the Chestnut Hill yard
and to the buildings at the Glenwood yard, where the interior of
the office and the room used as a garage were painted and varnished
and the fence along the street was painted.
Meters, Regulating Valves and Recording Pressure Gages.
There are now 69 Venturi meters varying in size from 6 inches
to 60 inches in diameter; 6 Hersey detector meters; 3 Hersey disc
meters and 1 Hersey torrent meter connected with the distribution
mains, which, with the exception of 10 of the Venturi meters, were
used for measuring the water supplied to the various municipalities
in the Metropolitan Water District.
In connection with the operation of these meters two men were
employed continuously during the year and some additional labor
was furnished for this work from time to time as required. The
Venturi meter registers were read and the clocks wound twice each
week, and they were given such additional attention as was neces-
sary to keep them in repair and operating satisfactorily.
There are now 8 pressure regulating valves installed on the dis-
tribution mains for reducing the pressure of the water supplied to
portions of Chelsea, East Boston and Hyde Park, and to Nahant,
98 METROPOLITAN WATER [Pub. Doc.
Revere, Swampscott and Winthrop. The regulating valve at Beach
Street, Revere, was in service from January 1 until May 3. The
controlling valves of the Ross regulators at Nahant and at Beach
Street, Revere, were overhauled and adjusted by the Ross Valve
Company.
The 10-inch regulating valve at the Revere- Winthrop boundary
line was removed on February 1 and after it was thoroughly over-
hauled and adjusted by the Waters Governor Company was put
in service again on May 3. The cost of removing, overhauling and
adjusting this valve was $189.13.
All of the other regulating valves have received the usual atten-
tion and have controlled the pressures in a satisfactory manner.
Recording pressure gages have been maintained at 22 stations on
the Metropolitan Water Works, and a table on pages 202 and 203,
showing the elevation of the hydraulic grade line in feet above
Boston city base at 18 of these stations for each month during the
year, has been prepared from the charts.
A connection to the recording pressure gage at the fire engine
house on Broad Street, in Lynn, was relaid on account of changes
made at this place by the city. On account of the severe electro-
lytic pitting of the old lead pipe, which was laid in 1906, the new
pipe was laid inside of a 4-inch vitrified clay pipe for a distance of
50 feet to protect it from this action. On account of this change
the gage was out of service from September 18 to November 8.
Breaks and Leaks.
February 14, about 6.35 a.m., a break occurred in the 30-inch
low-service main on Boylston Street at Boylston Place, in Brookline.
This pipe was laid by the city of Boston in 1848 and was acquired
from the city in 1913. Notice was received by the department of
the location of the break at about 6.50 a.m. and the line was shut
off by 8 a.m. At the point where the break occurred the pipe
trench had been excavated through ledge and the pipe was supported
on brick piers. The pipes were about 8j feet in length and there
was one pier about 2 feet back of each bell. The area of the hole
which was blown in the side of the pipe was about 28 square feet
and water flowed from it at the rate of about 72,000,000 gallons per
day for about 30 minutes. The flow then gradually diminished as
the gates were closed. The estimated amount of water which flowed
No. 57.] AND SEWERAGE BOARD. 99
from the pipe is 3,000,000 gallons. It washed away the surface of
Boylston Place and Cameron Street and flooded the basements of
several houses to variable depths of from 4 inches to 4§ feet. Be-
yond Cameron Street the water followed the Boston & Albany Rail-
road tracks and entered Muddy River at a point about 4,000 feet
from the break. The street surfaces were repaired by the Brookline
Street Department. The basements of the houses were pumped out
and cleaned by department forces. Repairs to the pipe line were
completed on the 18th and the line was left under pressure until
the 19th, when it was again put into service. The total expendi-
tures on account of the break amount to $1,826.08.
On November 17 a crack about 5 feet in length developed in the
48-inch pipe in Clinton Road, Brookline, 145 feet east of Dean
Road. This pipe line was laid by the city of Boston in 1869 and
was acquired from the city in 1913. The gates were closed as soon
as the leak was reported and before any damage was done, as the
water which escaped flowed off through a street catch basin. The
pipe line was repaired and was again put into service on November
24. The cost of the work was $619.78.
December 23 a crack 18 inches long developed in the 16-inch
pipe in Broadway near Winthrop Street, Revere. The pipe was
repaired and the line was again put in service on the 24th. The
water from the break entered the basements of two stores, which
were thoroughly cleaned and put in good condition by the department
forces. The total expenditure on account of the break was $145.25.
January 17 a leak developed at the bottom of a joint on a 48-
inch ^-curve in the southern high-service pipe line at the Arbor-
way, near South Street, Forest Hills. This leak appeared to have
been caused by settlement, resulting from the excavation of a tunnel
under the pipe line a few years previously for the Metropolitan
sewer. The cost of repairing this leak was $476.95.
February 27 the work of repairing a joint leak in the 36-inch up-
stream pipe line under the Maiden River was begun. A scow 24
feet x 60 feet, equipped with derrick, engine and 6-inch centrifugal
pump, and a diver were used for this work. After excavating around
the pipe by using the centrifugal pump and water jet it was found
that the lead joint had been worn away by sand-blast action of the
escaping jet of water. Repairs were made by using lead wool. The
entire cost of the work was $851.15.
100 METROPOLITAN WATER [Pub. Doc.
Between May 16 and 19 a leak was repaired at a taper joint in
the down-stream line of the 36-inch submerged pipes under the
Charles River at the foot of Magazine Street in Cambridge. An
outfit consisting of a pontoon equipped with a steam boiler and
6-inch centrifugal pump, and a diver, were used for this work.
The diver found that the lead was partially out of the taper joint
for the entire circumference and it was redriven and patched with
lead wool. The total cost of the work was $525.57.
July 10 a joint leak developed in the 30-inch cement pipe in
Broadway at Winchester Street, Somerville. This leak appeared to
be due to a concrete duct which settled on the pipe. It was repaired
at a cost of $139.71.
There were 39 minor joint leaks in the mains during the year.
Sixteen of these leaks were from defective wooden joints, which were
repaired at a cost of $283.08 and the remainder were for the most
part from lead joints and were probably caused by slight settlements
in the pipe lines, which were repaired at a cost of $253.27.
Emergency Pipe Line Service.
The two f-ton auto trucks, equipped with special bodies and gate-
operating attachments, which were put into service last year for
operating valves quickly in case of emergency, have been in service
during the entire year. One of the trucks is stationed at the Chest-
nut Hill pipe yard in Brighton for the southern division and the
other is stationed at the Glenwood pipe yard in Medford for the
northern distribution pipe system. Men are kept on duty ready to
operate the trucks in case of emergency at any time during the day
or night.
Consumption of Water.
The total quantity of water furnished to the 18 municipalities
supplied from the Metropolitan Water Works during the year, as
measured by the water works meters was 40,161,778,000 gallons,
which is equivalent to an average consumption of 110,032,300 gal-
lons per day. On the basis of an estimated population of 1,215,840
this is equivalent to a consumption of 90 gallons per capita per day.
This is an increase of one gallon per capita or 1.1 per cent, in the
average daily per capita consumption during 1917 over the con-
sumption of 1916. This is probably due in part to the increased
industrial activity on account of the war, and in part to the in-
No. 57.]
AND SEWERAGE BOARD.
101
tentional waste of water to protect the house fixtures from frost
during the unusually cold weather in February and December, and
to the use of water on lawns and gardens during the unusually hot
dry weather in July and August. For an entire week the consump-
tion averaged 129,425,000 gallons per day in February and 123,324,-
000 gallons per day in August, as compared with an average of
100,026,000 gallons per day for an entire week in November when
the consumption was at a minimum rate.
Diagrams following page 102 show graphically the results accom-
plished in the reduction of consumption by the installation of meters
on service pipes.
The average daily consumption of water in each of the munici-
palities supplied from the Metropolitan Water Works during 1916
and 1917, as measured by the Metropolitan Water Works meters,
is as follows : —
Estimated
Popula-
tion, 1917.
Average Daily Consumption.
1916.
1917.
Gallons.
Gallons
per
Capita.
Gallons.
Gallons
per
Capita.
Increase
in
Gallons.
Boston,
776,520
80,358,800
105
82,073,200
106
1,714,400
Somerville,
91,060
6,183,600
69
6,676,100
73
492,500
Maiden, .
51,160
2,460,200
49
2,419,300
47
40,900 1
Chelsea, .
46,300
3,070,900
68
3,188,500
69
117,600
Everett, .
39,780
2,891,400
74
3,033,000
76
141,600
Quincy, .
43,110
2,499,400
59
2,706,800
63
207,400
Medford, .
33,340
1,487,000
46
1,641,300
49
154,300
Melrose, .
17,560
781,800
45
902,900
51
121,100
Revere,
28,070
1,591,200
59
1,615,400
58
24,200
Watertown,
17,900
1,125,500
65
1,584,600
89
459,100
Arlington,
16,290
929,400
59
997,100
61
67,700
Milton,
9,050
371,300
42
375,000
41
3,700
Winthrop,
14,040
707,800
53
727,200
52
19,400
Stoneham,
7,680
437,900
58
531,300
69
93,400
Belmont, .
8,940
447,800
52
474,800
53
27,000
Lexington,
5,790
389,400
69
426,700
74
37,300
Nahant, .
1,480
159,000
110
155,300
105
3.700 1
Swampscott,
7,770
445,400
59
503,800
65
58,400
District,
1,215,840
106,337,800
89
110,032,300
90
3,694,500
1 Decrease.
102
METROPOLITAN WATER
[Pub. Doc.
The average consumption in the several districts was as follows : —
Gallons
per Day,
1917.
Increase from 1916.
Gallons
per Day.
Percent-
age.
Southern low-service district, embracing the low-service district of
Boston, with the exception of Charlestown and East Boston, .
Northern low-service district, embracing the low-service districts
of Somerville, Chelsea, Maiden, Medford, Everett, Arlington,
Charlestown and East Boston, .......
Southern high-service district, embracing Quincy and WateTtown,
the high-service districts of Boston, and portions of Belmont
Northern high-service district, embracing Melrose, Revere, Win-
throp, Swampscott, Nahantand Stoneham, and the high-service
districts of Somerville, Chelsea, Maiden, Medford, Everett and
East Boston, . _ .
Southern extra high-service district, embracing the higher portions
of Hyde Park, Milton and West Roxbury, ....
Northern extra high-service district, embracing Lexington and the
higher portions of Arlington and Belmont, ....
42,749,100
22,418,300
35,174,400
8,124,400
688,400
877,700
616,200
l f 07©,900
1,408,200
480,800
32,400
77,000
1.46
5.06
4.17
6.29
4.94
9.62
Totals
110,032,300
3,694,500
3.47
Installation of Meters on Service Pipes.
Chapter 524 of the Acts of the year 1907, as amended by chapter
177 of the Acts of the year 1909, requires that in municipalities
supplied with water from the Metropolitan Water Works meters
shall be set each year on all new service pipes and on 5 per cent,
of all service pipes that were without meters on December 31, 1907,
and that it shall be the duty of the Metropolitan Water and Sewer-
age Board to supervise and promote the enforcement of the pro-
visions of this act.
Chapter 269 of the Special Acts of the year 1917 provides that
the requirement that meters shall be set each year on 5 per cent,
of all services that were not equipped with meters on December 31,
1907, shall not apply to the city of Boston for a period of one year
after the passage of this act.
Information regarding the installation of meters on service pipes
by the municipalities supplied with water from the Metropolitan
Water Works to December 31, 1917, is given in the table on page
103. From this table it may be seen that the total number of
meters set on both old and new service pipes since 1907 in each of
the municipalities is equal to or exceeds the total number of meters
required by the statute to be set to December 31, 1917, although
there has been some departure from an exact compliance with the
law in certain years.
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METROPOLITAN WATER
[Pub. Doc.
During 1917 2,803 service pipes and 4,593 meters were installed
in the municipalities supplied from the Metropolitan Water Works,
and at the close of the year 182,139 service pipes and 131,589
meters were in use; 72.20 per cent, of all the service pipes had been
provided with meters; in eight of the municipalities all of the
service pipes were equipped with meters and in three other munici-
palities over 99 per cent, of the service pipes were equipped with
meters.
Water Supplied Outside of Metropolitan Water District.
During the year 484,052,000 gallons of water were supplied from
the Metropolitan Water Works for use outside the Metropolitan
Water District as follows : —
Places supplied.
Total
Quantity
(Gallons).
Average
Quantity
(Gallons
per Day). 1
Number of
Days on
which Water
was
supplied.
Amounts
charged
for Water
supplied.
Westborough State Hospital, .
Town of Framingham: —
From Sudbury Aqueduct, .
From Filter-gallery at Farm Pond,
United States Government: —
Peddock's Island,
Town of Saugus, ....
57,387,000
182,300,000
207,800,000
31,859,000
4,706,000
157,000
499,452
569,300
87,300
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364
365
365
365
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4,773 72
1,833 25
270 00
1 For the entire year.
Protection of. Water Works Structures.
Measures which were undertaken for the protection of the water
works structures from irresponsible or malicious persons in Febru-
ary, 1916, because of the unsettled conditions, have been continued,
and since war was declared additional precautions have been taken
which have required the service of a substantial number of men
and a material increase in the maintenance expenditures.
Quality of the Water.
The yearly average results of the chemical analyses made by
the State Department of Health since 1892 and of the biological
and bacteriological examinations made in the Metropolitan Water
Works laboratory, of water from service taps in Boston since 1898,
No. 57.] AND SEWERAGE BOARD. 105
are given in tables on pages 191 to 194. The results of chemical
and biological examinations of the water from various parts of the
system during the year 1917 are given in tables on pages 185 to
190.
Engineeking.
In connection with the maintenance of the works the engineering
force has made plans, estimates and reports for various projects
and improvements; has made record plans of water works lands and
structures, surveys and plans of sanitary conditions at premises on
the watersheds and for land purchases and takings; has tested
meters; made photographs, blueprints and analyses of coal and oil;
calculated yields of watersheds; made current meter gagings; kept
hydraulic and meteorological records; summarized power station and
pumping station records; cared for the recording pressure gages and
supervised various operations carried on by the department.
Appended to this report are tables giving additional information
relating to the operations of the Metropolitan Water Works for the
year 1917 and the usual water works statistics.
Respectfully submitted,
Boston, January 2, 1918.
WILLIAM E. FOSS,
Chief Engineer.
106 METROPOLITAN WATER [Pub. Doc.
REPORT OF CHIEF ENGINEER OF SEWERAGE
WORKS.
To the Metropolitan Water and Sewerage Board.
Gentlemen: — The following report of the operations of the Met-
ropolitan Sewerage Works for the year ending December 31, 1917,
is respectfully submitted : —
Organization.
The Chief Engineer has charge of the design and construction of
all new works, and of the maintenance and operation of all the
works controlled by the Metropolitan Water and Sewerage Board
for removing sewage from the twenty-six municipalities which com-
prise the Metropolitan Sewerage districts.
The following assistants have been employed during the year : —
Henry T. Stiff, Division Engineer, in charge of of-
fice and drafting room and of the
construction work.
Clarence A. Moore, Assistant Engineer, in charge of
maintenance studies and records
and of construction work on the
North Metropolitan System.
Arthur F. F. Haskell, .... Assistant Engineer, in charge of
survey work and field work in
connection with the Wellesley
Extension construction.
Ralph W. Loud, . . . . . Assistant Engineer, in charge of
survey work and field work in
connection with the Reading Ex-
tension construction.
George W. Wood, Assistant Engineer, on Deer Island
Outfall Extension.
In addition to the above, the number of engineering and other
assistants employed during the year .was 19, which includes 3 in-
strumentmen, 7 inspectors, 2 draftsmen, 5 rodmen and engineering
assistants and 2 stenographers.
No. 57.]
AND SEWERAGE BOARD.
107
METROPOLITAN SEWERAGE DISTRICTS.
Areas and Populations.
During the year no changes have been made in the extent of the
Metropolitan Sewerage districts and they remain as given in the
last annual report.
The populations of the districts, as given in the following table,
are based on the census of 1915.
Table showing Ultimate Contributing Areas and Present Estimated Populations
within the Metropolitan Sewerage Districts, as of December 81, 1917.
City ok Town.
Area (Square
Miles).
Estimated
Population.
Arlington,
5.20
16,600
Belmont, -
4.66
9,140
Boston (portions
of),,
3.45
109,640
Cambridge, .
Chelsea,
6.11
2.24
111,890
46,930
S3
e8
Everett,
3.34
40,240
."£
Lexington, i .
5.11
4,220
Maiden,
5.07
51,660
Medford,
8.35
33,970
2s
Melrose,
Reading,
3.73
9.82
17,710
7,520
£
Revere,
Somerville, .
Stoneham, .
Wakefield, .
Winchester, .
Winthrop,
Woburn,
5.86
3.96
5.50
7.65
5.95
1.61
12.71
28,710
91,990
7,720
13,500
10,610
14,320
16,850
inn i n
, . coo oort
Boston (portions of),
24.96
270,380
Brookline, .
6.81
36,300
o
Dedham, 1 .
9.40
11,810
£.2
Milton,
12.59
9,150
o
Newton,
Quincy,
Waltham,
16.88
12.56
13.63
44,980
43,660
31,550
OQ
Watertown, .
4.04
18,210
Wellesley,
•. *«
9.89
7,030
1 in 7fi
/(7o 070
211.08
1,106,290
1 Part of town.
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METROPOLITAN SEWERS.
Sewers Purchased and Constructed and their Connections.
During the year there have been built 1.527 miles of Metropolitan
sewer within the sewerage districts, so that there are now 113.011
miles of Metropolitan sewers. Of this total, 9.642 miles of sewers,
with the Quincy pumping station, have been purchased from cities
and towns of the districts. The remaining 103.369 miles of sewers
and other works have been constructed by the Metropolitan boards.
The locations, lengths and sizes of these sewers are given in the
following tables, together with other data referring to the public and
special connections with the systems : —
North Metropolitan Sewerage System.
Location, Length and Sizes of Sewers
, with Public and Special Connections
D3
■ i
© S •
Special Connections.
8
So 1-1
,P, r
City or Town.
Size of Sewers.
.2
Character or Location of
.2
© a
+3
a
©
ublic
tion
ber
Connection.
c ft
Hi
P4
'A
Boston: —
Deer Island,
4'0"to9'0",
1.653
4
Shoe factory, ....
1
East Boston,
9'0"tol'0",
5.467
25
Middlebrook Wool-combing
Co.,
1
Charlestown,
6'7"X7'5"to l'O", .
3.292
14 |
Navy Yard
Private building, .
Club house, ....
8
1
1
Winthrop,
9'0",
?, 864
13-
Fire Department Station,
Private building, .
1
1
Rendering works, .
1
1
Chelsea,
8'4"X9'2"to 15", .
5.230
13<
Metropolitan Water Works
blow-off,
Chelsea Water Works blow-
off,
Metropolitan Water Works
blow-off, ....
Cameron Appliance Co.,
Shultz-Goodwin Co.,
1
2
1
1
1
Everett,
8'2"X8' 10"to4'8"X5' 1",
2.925
8'
Andrews- Wasgatt Co., .
National Metallic Bed Co., .
Factory, ....
New England Structural Co.,
1
1
1
2
1
Lexington, 1 .
— "~
—
1
[
Metropolitan Water Works
—
Maiden, .
4'6"X4' 10" to l'O", .
5.844*
34 1
blow-off, ....
Private buildings, .
1
181
1 Lexington, although admitted to the Metropolitan Sewerage System in 1897, has not contributed
sewage to the Metropolitan trunk lines until the present year as no local sewerage system had been con-
structed. Connection was made with the Metropolitan sewers September 11, 1916.
2 Includes 1.84 miles of sewer purchased from the city of Maiden.
No. 57.]
AND SEWERAGE BOARD.
109
North Metropolitan Sewerage System — Concluded.
Location, Length and Sizes of Sewers, with Public and Special Connections
— Concluded.
m
ffi
Special Connections.
3
g 8^
a QJ2
.ad
Citt or Town.
Size of Sewers.
Character or Location of
ublk
tion
ber
Connection.
S ft
^
P4
&
<
Private buildings, .
. 114
Melrose, .
4' 6"X4' 10" to 10", .
6.0991
38'
>
Factory, ....
Railroad station,
Park Department bath house
Harvard dormitories,
Slaughterhouse,
Cambridge, .
5' 2"X5' 9" to 1' 3", .
7.209
45
>
City Hospital,
Street railway machine shop
Private buildings, .
Tannery,
Slaughterhouses (3),
Car-house,
Somerville Water Works blow-
Somerville,
6'5"X7'2"to 10", .
3.577
12-
>
off,
Street railway power-house,
Stable, ....
Rendering works, .
Railroad scale pit, .
Armory building, .
Medford,
4'8"X5' l"to 10", .
5.713
24.
>
Private buildings, .
Stable, ....
Police substation, .
Tanneries,
Private buildings, .
Gelatine factory, .
Watch-hand factory,
Winchester, .
4' 6" to 1' 3", .
9.470
25.
Stable, ....
Railroad station, .
Felt works,
Town Hall, .
Bay State Saw & Tool Co., .
Stoneham,
1' 3" to 10",
.0.010
4
- -
Woburn,
1' 10"X2'4" to 1' 3", .
0.933
3
f
Glue factory, .
Private buildings, .
159
Arlington,
1' 6" to 10",
3.5202
42
Railroad station, .
Car-house,
Post office,
Belmont, «
-
-
3
1
3
-
-
Revere, .
4' 0" to 15",
0.136
— —
-
63. 942 4
312
541
1 Includes .736 of a mile of sewer purchased from the city of Melrose.
2 Includes 2.631 miles of sewer purchased from the town of Arlington.
3 The Metropolitan sewer extends but a few feet into the towns of Belmont and Wakefield.
' Includes 2.787 miles of Mystic Valley sewer in Medford, Winchester and Woburn, running parallel with
the Metropolitan sewer.
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South Metropolitan Sewerage System.
Location, Length and Sizes of Sewers, with Public and Special Connections.
.2
® £ •
Special Connections.
1
C3 O *—
.3d
City or Town.
Size of Sewers.
,£3
— nnco
Character or Location of
t- "-+3
So
a
ublic
tion:
ber
Connection.
S a
5°
tl
Ph
5
Tufts Medical School, .
1
Boston: —
Back Bay, .
Private house,
1
6' 6" to 3' 9",
1.5001
16 <
Administration Building,
Boston Park Department, .
1
Simmons College buildings, .
1
Art Museum, ....
2
Brighton, .
5'9"X6'0" to 12", .
6.0102
15
Abattoir, ....
Chocolate works, .
Machine shop,
3
2
1
Dorchester,
3'X4'to2'6"X2' 7", .
2.870»
13<
>
Paper mill, ....
Private buildings, .
Edison Electric Company Sta-
tion, . .
Mattapan Paper Mills, .
1
3
1
1
Hyde Park,
10'7"Xll'7"to4'0"X4'l",
4.527
18-
Private buildings, .
Fairview Cemetery buildings,
2
1
Roxbury,
6'6"X7'to 4'0",
1.430
(
Caledonia Grove buildings, .
1
West Roxbury, .
9'3"X10'2"to 12", .
7.600
"
Parental School,
Lutheran Evangelical Church,
Private buildings, .
1
1
4
Brookline,
6'6"X7' 0"to 8", . . .
2.540 4
12'
Private building, .
2
Dedham,
4'X4' l"to2' 10"X3' 1", .
2.839
7
Dedham Carpet Mills,
1
Hull, s .
60" pipe, ....
0.750
-
- -
-
Milton, .
ll'X12'to8",
3.600
23
Private buildings, .
2
Newton,
4'2"X4' 9" to 1'3", .
2.911
7
Private houses,
7
Quincy, .
11'3"X12' 6" to 24" pipe, .
6.845
14
Metropolitan Water Works
blow-off, ....
1
Waltham,
3'6"X4'0",
0.001
1
f
Factories, ....
2
Watertown,
4'2"X4'9"to 12", .
0.750 6
'}
Stanley Motor Carriage Co ., .
Knights of Pythias building,
1
1
Needham, 5
2'0"X2'3"to2'3"X2'6", .
4.896
_ -
-
Wellesley, 7
-
-
-
49.069
147
45
1 Includes .355 of a mile of sewer purchased from the city of Boston.
2 Includes .446 of a mile of pipe and concrete sewers built for the use of the city of Boston; also .026
of a mile of sewer purchased from the town of Watertown.
3 Includes 1.24 miles of sewer purchased from the city of Boston.
4 Includes .158 of a mile of pipe sewer built for the use of the town of Brookline.
6 Hull and Needham are not parts of the Metropolitan Sewerage District.
6 Includes .025 of a mile of sewer purchased from the town of Watertown.
7 The Metropolitan sewer extends but a few feet into the town of Wellesley.
Information relating to areas, populations, local sewer connections
and other data for the Metropolitan Sewerage districts appears in
the following table : —
No. 57.]
AND SEWERAGE BOARD.
Ill
North Metropolitan Sewerage District.
Area
(Square
Miles).
100.32
Estimated
Total
Population.
Miles of
Local Sewer
connected.
633,220
769.92
Estimated
Population
contributing
Sewage.
568,075
Ratio of
Contributing
Population
to Total
Population
(Per Cent.).
Connections made
with Metro-
politan Sewers.
Public.
312
Special.
541
South Metropolitan Sewerage District.
110.76
473,070
653.17
342,715
72.4
147
45
Both Metropolitan Sewerage Districts.
211.08
1,106,290
1,423.09
910,790
82.3
459
586
Of the estimated gross population of 1,106,290 on December 31,
1917, 910,790, representing 82.3 per cent., were on that date con-
tributing sewage to the Metropolitan sewers, through a total length
of 1423.09 miles of local sewers owned by the individual cities and
towns of the districts.
These sewers are connected with the Metropolitan systems by 459
public and 586 special connections. During the current year there
has been an increase of 20.02 miles of local sewers connected with the
Metropolitan systems, and 7 public and 16 special connections.
CONSTRUCTION.
NORTH METROPOLITAN SEWERAGE SYSTEM.
Section 1. — Deer Island Outfall Extension.
The contract and general character of this work are described in
last year's report.
Work was resumed on this contract July 9, 1917, and was carried
on to completion on December 3, 1917. Much delay was occasioned
by the unusually stormy weather during the autumn months.
Stone foundation, consisting of granite sills about 2 feet by 2| feet
by 10 feet, was used between Station 2+58 and Station 0+91.
From Station 0+91 to Station 0+0 oak piles 11 feet long were
driven in bents of two and were capped by 10-inch by 10-inch
hard pine secured to the tops of the piles by drift bolts. Two of
112 METROPOLITAN WATER [Pub. Doc.
these bents were placed under each 9-foot length of 84-inch cast-
iron pipe.
Owing to the loose character of the sand and gravel, the trench
was dredged to a width on top of about 60 feet. Before back-
filling stone riprap buttresses were built on either side against the
84-inch pipe at stations 0+81, 1+25 and 1+60 to prevent dis-
placement while backfilling was being done. A sleeve was intro-
duced in the pipe line at Station 0+32.
The 84-inch cast-iron pipe and specials were covered on the out-
side with a iV- mcn coating of bitumastic enamel.
Extension to Reading.
No work has yet been done in constructing the Metropolitan
sewer extension to Reading as authorized by Chapter 159 of the
General Acts of 1916.
Several attempts have been made to place contracts for the upper
two sections but owing to the abnormal conditions of the market
for supplies and labor, the prices bid have been so much above the
original estimated cost that no contracts could be made.
The estimate of cost for this work was made in 1914.
SOUTH METROPOLITAN SEWERAGE SYSTEM.
Wellesley Extension.
The Wellesley Extension of the High-level Sewer comprises sec-
tions 98 to 106 inclusive. Of these sections 102, 103, 104, 105 and
106 are wholly completed and Section 98 is about 80 per cent,
completed.
Section 98. — Wellesley Extension.
The particulars of this section and the contracts concerning the
same are given in last year's report.
Work has been carried on throughout the year and 2,518 feet of
sewer have been completed. Great difficulty has been experienced
in the work owing to the loose, wet, fine sands encountered. The
ground waters have been very high throughout the year and the
marshes were flooded in August and October so that work had to be
abandoned temporarily. It has been necessary to drive 3-inch
matched sheeting nearly all the distance completed. In most places
it was driven 7 to 9 feet below grade and the concrete sewer built
on a gravel platform. Considerable ground water was found.
No. 57.] AND SEWERAGE BOARD. 113
Ledge was encountered between Station 9+84 and Station 11+87
and gravel bottom between Station 11+87 and Station 12+60.
Reinforcing steel has been used in the concrete except where ledge
and gravel bottoms were found.
A temporary corduroy road has been built along the side of the
trench leading easterly from Bridge Street.
It is expected this section will be completed in the fall of 1918.
Section 99. — Wellesley Extension.
This section consists of about 1,300 feet of rock tunnel and 2,000
feet of trench in which is to be constructed a 33-inch by 36-inch
concrete sewer. A small amount only of construction work on this
section has been accomplished. An attempt to make a contract
for this work in 1916 and another in August, 1917, failed as the
prices bid were far in excess of the appropriation.
A small portion of this section extending from Station 0+0 to
Station 0+66 has been constructed by G. M. Bryne in connection
with the construction of Section 98. This work was done to com-
plete that part of the Wellesley Extension extending through the
fine sands at this locality. The trench at Station 0+66 reached a
bottom of hard ground.
Section 100. — Wellesley Extension.
No attempt has been made to place this section of 3,900 feet of
33-inch by 36-inch concrete sewer in trench under contract as the
appropriation was insufficient.
Section 101. — Wellesley Extension.
Plans were prepared and on September 26, 1917, bids were opened
for the construction of this section of 3,840 feet of 33-inch by 36-
inch concrete sewer in trench including a crossing of the Charles
River.
No contract was made as all bids, being in excess of the appro-
priation, were rejected.
Section 102. — Wellesley Extension.
This section and the contract for the same were described in last
year's report.
Ledge was encountered at various points from Station 9+50 to
114 METROPOLITAN WATER [Pub. Doc.
Station 18+00, from Station 23+50 to Station 27+50 and from
Station 54+0 to Station 66+60. Excavations below grade were
necessary from Station 0+0 to Station 3+12, from Station 5+10 to
Station 8+0, from Station 30+36 to Station 31+20 and from Station
41 + 10 to Station 43+50. These were refilled with special con-
crete except from Station 30+36 to Station 31+20 which was re-
filled with gravel. A small amount of ground water was encountered.
Masonry work on this section was completed December 15, 1917.
There remains some grading and cleaning up which will be com-
pleted when the weather permits.
MAINTENANCE.
SCOPE OF WORK AND FORCE EMPLOYED.
The maintenance of the Metropolitan Sewerage System includes
the operation of 7 pumping stations, the Nut Island screen-house
and 113.011 miles of Metropolitan sewers, receiving the discharge
from 1,423.09 miles of town and city sewers at 459 points, together
with the care and study of inverted siphons under streams and in
the harbor.
The permanent maintenance force includes 160 men, of whom 96
are employed on the North System and 64 on the South System.
These are subdivided as follows: North Metropolitan System, 58
engineers and other employees at the pumping stations; on main-
tenance, care of sewer lines, buildings and grounds, 38 men, including
foremen; South Metropolitan System, 35 engineers and other em-
ployees within the pumping stations; and 29 men, including fore-
men, on maintenance, care of sewer lines, buildings and grounds.
The regular work of this department, in addition to the operation
of the pumping stations, has consisted of routine work of cleaning
and inspecting sewers and siphons, caring for tide gates, regulators
and overflows, measuring flow in sewers, inspection of connections
to the Metropolitan sewers, care of pumping stations and other
buildings and grounds, and the maintenance of the ferry at Shirley
Gut for transporting employees and supplies in connection with the
operation of the Deer Island pumping station.
In addition to these regular duties other work has been done by
this department as follows : —
No. 57.] AND SEWERAGE BOARD. 115
Deer Island Pumping Station.
During this year there has been constructed at this station a new
masonry office annex 12 feet by 16 feet with reinforced concrete
roof. This adjoins the back of the original engine house and re-
places a wooden building formerly used as an office.
The brick walls of the economizer building at this station have
been raised 6 feet and a reinforced-concrete roof has been placed
over the same. This gives head room enough to make repairs to
economizer tubes.
The shaft of the impeller wheel of pump No. 3 has been refitted
to the wheel and new tubes were inserted in the wheel. A new
bronze sleeve was put on the shaft of this pump.
The lower bearing of pump No. 4, which was formerly of lignum-
vitse with no method of adjustment, has been changed to a bab-
bitted brass bearing with adjusting screws to take up the wear.
All work was done by maintenance employees.
East Boston Pumping Station.
A 1,500-gallon steel tank for sea water for condensation purposes
has been placed in this station. By the use of this tank all engines
can be run through low tide without the use of condensation water
from the public water supply.
All work was done by maintenance employees.
Charlestown Pumping Station.
A new well for sea water for condensing purposes has been con-
structed outside the station. This replaces one built in 1895.
All work was done by maintenance employees.
Changes in the location and elevation of the street in front of
this station in connection with the construction of the new highway
bridge across Mystic River have been completed during the year.
The street has been moved 30 feet to the westward and has been
raised about 5 feet at the southerly end of the pumping station lot.
Ward Street Pumping Station.
During the year two 175 horse-power upright boilers of the Dean
type have been placed in this station. These were constructed and
116 METROPOLITAN WATER [Pub. Doc.
placed in position by the D. M. Dillon Steam Boiler Works of
Fitchburg.
All connecting piping and flues have been completed by the main-
tenance employees.
Seattle Street Conduit Grossing.
Arrangements were made with the city of Boston whereby the
Metropolitan Water and Sewerage Board changed the size and
form of the Metropolitan sewer at about Station 14 of Section D,
Brighton, and built a short length of storm water conduit across
the Metropolitan sewer at this point. The Board is to be reim-
bursed by the city for all expenditures.
Nut Island.
At this place a new reinforced concrete boat-house and tool-
house with wooden roof has been constructed. This is situated on
the easterly side of the island near high-water mark and has di-
mensions of 56 feet by 23 feet.
All work was done by maintenance employees.
Government Use of Old 24-inch Quincy Force Main.
At the new shipbuilding plant at Squantum, Quincy, the United
States Government has installed a special sewerage system and
pumping plant. Permission was given by the Board to use such
part as is needed of the abandoned 24-inch cast-iron main in Squan-
tum Street leading to the Boston Main Drainage System at Squan-
tum Head.
A connection was made to this force main at about Station
132+70. No sewage has yet been discharged through this line.
Study of Sewerage in Mill Brook Valley in Arlington.
The following study of the sewerage conditions and needs of the
towns of Arlington and Lexington has been made in accordance with
legislative resolve, chapter 22 of 1917, approved March 8, 1917, which
reads —
Resolved, That the metropolitan water and sewerage board shall investigate
the condition and capacity of the present metropolitan sewer in the town of
Arlington with especial reference to its capacity to receive and dispose of the
No. 57.] AND SEWERAGE BOARD. 117
sewage of that part of the town of Arlington tributary to the same, and of the
town of Lexington. The said board is also authorized and directed to report a
plan for the new sewer contemplated by section four of chapter five hundred and
twenty of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, in the valley
of Mill or Sucker brook, so situated as to serve all parts of the said valley and
such adjacent territory as, in the opinion of the board, should be served by the
same. The board may employ such engineering or other assistance as may be
necessary, and may incur an expense not exceeding one thousand dollars in
carrying out the provisions of this resolve. The board shall report to the present
general court not later than the first day of May, with plans and estimates of
the cost of such construction as it may recommend.
At present the towns are served by a metropolitan trunk sewer
extending the entire length of Arlington and terminating at the
easterly boundary of Lexington. This sewer was in part purchased
from the town of Arlington and in part constructed by the Metro-
politan Sewerage District.
The sewer constructed by the District extends from the Alewife
Brook pumping station to a point in Arlington across Alewife
Brook known as Section 48, and that portion from Lowell Street
near Massachusetts Avenue to the Arlington-Lexington town line,
known as Section 53. The portion between Section 48 and Section
53 was purchased from the town and is known as Section 52.
Section 48 was constructed in 1894, and is a part of the original
trunk lines of the Metropolitan Sewerage District.
Upon the admission of part of the town of Lexington to the
Sewerage District, Section 52 (which previously had been a local
sewer built by the town) and Section 53 became parts of the metro-
politan trunk system to provide an outlet for the town of Lexington
as provided in chapter 520 of the Acts of 1897.
Although Lexington became a part of the Metropolitan Sewerage
District at this time, no local sewers were built therein until 1915,
and no connection was made to the metropolitan system until
September, 1916.
Section 4 of chapter 520 of the Acts of 1897 reads as follows: —
Whenever said portion of the sewer in Massachusetts Avenue shall be in-
sufficient to accommodate the town of Lexington and the portion of the town of
Arlington using the same, the metropolitan sewerage commissioners shall con-
struct a new sewer in the valley of Mill or Sucker Brook, in such a location as
shall accommodate all portions of said valley.
118 METROPOLITAN WATER [Pub. Doc.
At the time of the formation of the Metropolitan Sewerage Dis-
trict, Arlington had a population of less than 5,000, and a forecast
gave it as having probably 10,000 in 1930. The town has grown
much faster than was anticipated and now has a population of
15,300 (approximately). Section 48 was designed to furnish an
outlet for a population of 10,000 at the rate of 30 cubic feet per
person daily. That part of Lexington included within the Sewerage
District has a present population of 4,080, of which only 200 per-
sons are now contributing sewage to the metropolitan sewers. Cal-
culations made in this office based on recent census returns indicate
that in 1940 that portion of Lexington in the Metropolitan Sewerage
District will probably have a population of 13,000, and that Arling-
ton will have 46,000. To provide for these populations, the metro-
politan sewers serving these towns should then have a total ca-
pacity of 17,700,000 gallons per day.
The towns of Lexington and Arlington are now served by metro-
politan sewers as follows: —
At the Lexington-Arlington town line a 15-inch pipe sewer having
a capacity of 2,300,000 gallons per day.
Between Lowell Street and Brattle Street a 12-inch pipe sewer
having a capacity of 2,000,000 gallons per day.
Between Brattle Street and Mystic Street a 12-inch pipe sewer
having a capacity of 2,400,000 gallons per day:
Between Mystic Street and Alewife Brook pumping station partly
15-inch and partly 18-inch pipe sewer having a capacity of 2,250,000
gallons per day.
Arlington has also two other outlets into the Alewife Brook metro-
politan sewer, — one at Henderson Street and one at Lake Street.
The town of Arlington maintains two automatic pumping plants,.
— one at Brattle Street and one at Grove Street. These lift the
sewage from limited areas north of Mill Brook into the metropoli-
tan sewer in Massachusetts Avenue.
At the present time no portion of the metropolitan sewer in Massa-
chusetts Avenue is carrying more than two-thirds of its capacity.
The town of Arlington may be divided into three districts — one
to the east of Mystic Street which can be made tributary to a low-
level sewer only, like the one now entering the Alewife Brook pump-
ing station (this will have an estimated population in 1940 of about
29,000, and now has three outlets to the metropolitan sewers); the
No. 57.] AND SEWERAGE BOARD. 119
second portion extends between Mystic Street and Brattle Street,
and will have a population in 1940 of probably 10,500; the third
part of the town is that lying to the westward of Brattle Street,
and will have a population in 1940 of probably 7,500. The two
latter divisions with Lexington's contributory population estimated
at 12,750 in 1940 will give a total population in Mill Brook valley
above Mystic Street of 30,750. This population would require a
sewer with a capacity of 9,300,000 gallons per day to provide for
these areas.
In studying the problem, it has been thought proper to divide
the sewage from Arlington and Lexington into two parts and take
the portion from all of the territory in the upper part of the valley
across to West Medford and there discharge it into the existing
metropolitan sewer at High and Canal streets and continue to take
the portion from the remaining part of the town of Arlington, namely,
that part east of Mystic Street to the low-level Alewife Brook sewer,
as is now being done.
To provide for the disposal from the higher parts a trunk sewer
has been studied starting from the corner of High and Canal streets
in West Medford extending westerly through High Street, crossing
the Mystic River into Arlington and then extending through Med-
ford Street and Hayes Street in and through private lands and Mt.
Pleasant Cemetery to a crossing of Mill Brook near Sachem Street
and thence through Sachem Street to Mystic Street, then in Mystic
Street and part of Summer Street and then in private lands crossing
the Boston & Maine Railroad location to Mill Street and then
through a proposed street and private lands and land of the Arling-
ton Gas Company to and across Grove Street, thence through Dud-
ley Street to a point in Brattle Street. This sewer will have a
total length of about 11,400 feet and will consist of a 36-inch by 42-
inch concrete sewer and 24-inch, 20-inch and 18-inch pipe sewers
with relief connections extending from the existing metropolitan
sewer through Mystic Street and Brattle Street to the proposed
trunk line, about 1,550 feet in length.
By this method all of the tributary territory of Lexington and of
Arlington to the westward of Mystic Street in Mill Brook valley
can be permanently and adequately served.
The Board is not called upon to report upon any part of Arling-
ton not lying in Mill Brook valley.
120 METROPOLITAN WATER [Pub. Doc.
The construction work study has been limited to that portion
east of Brattle Street for the present because it is believed that the
town of Arlington can conveniently bring its collecting sewers to
this point. While it is proposed at present to consider building
only as far as Brattle Street, the needs of the whole valley have
been studied, and the line as shown, on the plan extending to the
Lexington town line, together with the existing metropolitan sewer,
will furnish adequate outlet for this area.
The estimated cost of the construction of this portion of the line
with the relief connections is $350,000. This estimate is based on
unit prices named in bids recently received by the Board for sewer
work in a territory similar to and not far distant from this work.
Prices of material are still advancing and labor is scarce and in-
efficient and wage rates are rising.
There is no doubt that the construction of a sewer in Mill Brook
valley must in a few years be undertaken. The condition, however,
named in section 4 of chapter 520 of the Acts of 1897 has not yet
arrived.
A map showing the route and profile of the sewer line as studied
is on file in this office.
Gasolene in Public Sewers.
The efforts to improve the condition of the Metropolitan sewers
in regard to dangers resulting from the introduction of gasolene
into the same have been continued throughout the year and have
been successful.
An inspector has been employed in this department whose duty
it is to visit existing garages and see that the separators are kept
in proper condition, also to enforce the regulation concerning the
installation of such separators at all newly constructed garages.
There has been a large growth in the number of places from which
gasolene might be discharged into the Metropolitan Sewerage Sys-
tems. While the presence of gasolene in the sewers is noted occa-
sionally, the condition has been greatly improved.
The following tables show the particulars in regard to establish-
ments known to be using gasolene and which are connected with the
public sewerage systems of the different municipalities in the Met-
ropolitan districts : —
No. 57.]
AND SEWERAGE BOARD.
121
North Metropolitan Sewerage District.
Table showing Number of Places where Gasolene is used connected with Public
Sewers and Progress of Work of installing Separators to December 31, 1917.
City or Town.
Number
of Places
connected
with Sewer.
Number
of Places
' originally
having
Acceptable
Separators.
Number
of Places
where
Changes
have been
made.
Number
of New
Garages
built,
1917.
Number
of Places
where
Changes
have
yet to be
made.
Arlington, .....
6
3
3
-
Belmont
4
-
2
1
1
Boston : —
Charlestown District, .
19
-
11
8
-
East Boston District,
17
-
7
10
-
Cambridge,
90
-
49
40
li
Chelsea, .
•
18
-
9
9
-
Everett, .
14
-
13
1
-
Lexington,
-
-
-
-
-
Maiden, .
20
-
19
1
-
Medford, .
13
-
10
3
-
Melrose, .
5
-
5
-
-
Revere,
9
-
6
3
-
Somerville,
40
8
23
9
-
Stoneham,
6
-
3
3
-
Wakefield,
6
-
4
2
-
Winchester,
14
-
12
2
-
Winthrop,
4
-
4
-
-
Woburn, .
3
-
2
1
-
Reading, -
-
-
-
-
-
Totals,
288
8
182
96
2
1 Storer's garage.
2 Not yet connected with Metropolitan sewers.
122
METROPOLITAN WATER
[Pub. Doc.
South Metropolitan Sewerage District.
Table showing Number of Places where Gasolene is used connected with Public
Sewers and Progress of Work of installing Separators to December 81, 1917.
City or Town.
Number
of Places
connected
with Sewer.
Number
of Places
originally
having
Acceptable
Separators.
Number
of Places
where
Changes
have been
made.
Number
of New
Garages
built,
1917.
Number
of Places
where
Changes
have
yet to be
made.
Boston: —
Hyde Park District,
14
-
8
6
-
West Roxbury District,
20
10
10
13
-
Back Bay District,
48
5
23
20
-
Brighton District,
43
22
21
22
-
Dorchester District,
27
20
7
22
-
Brookline,
60
9
36
15
-
Dedham, .
3
3
-
1
-
Milton,
1
1
-
1
-
Newton, .
38
18
13
7
-
Quincy, .
14
-
12
2
-
Waltham,
5
5
-
2
-
Watertown,
15
3
10
2
-
Wellesley, 1
-
-
-
-
-
Totals,
288
96
140
113
-
1 Not yet connected with Metropolitan sewers.
Drainage from Tanneries, Gelatine and Glue Works in
Winchester, Woburn and Stoneham.
Four men and a foreman have been employed during a part of
the year in flushing and cleaning the Metropolitan sewers through
the tannery districts of Winchester, Woburn and Stoneham.
All the tanneries and glue works of the district now have settling
tanks of substantial size. This method of treatment has very
greatly reduced the amount of sludge material entering the Metro-
politan sewers.
The following table gives details of settling tanks introduced to
date, showing the operations of same with the amount of sludge
collected and removed : —
No. 57.]
AND SEWERAGE BOARD.
123
Table of Semi-fluid Sludge removed from Settling Basins at the Tanneries, Gela-
tine and Glue Works in Winchester, Woburn and Stoneham, Year ending
December 31, 1917.
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Beggs & Cobb Company, Basin No. 1,
Jan. 15,
1910
47.0 X 23.0
4
136.00
544.00
Beggs & Cobb Company, Basin No. 2,
May 9,
1910
47.0 X 23.0
4
136.00
544.00
Beggs & Cobb Company, Basin No. 3,
Oct. 19,
1911
51.0 X 25.0
3
162.50
487.50
Beggs & Cobb Company, "Rotary Screen
Dec. 12,
1917
_
-
-
22.20
Process." 1
S. C. Parker & Son,
Aug. 1,
1910
48.3 X 23.0
2
34.94
69.88
American Hide and Leather Company,
Nov. 15,
1910
48.0 X 23.1
5
139.50
697.50
Factory D.
Dorington Leather Company, 2 .
Dec. 10,
1910
47.2 X 23.0
4
106.84
427.36
E. Cummings Leather Company,
Nov. 1,
1910
45.9 X 22.6
2
97.60
195.20
W. P. Fox & Sons, .
July 12,
1910
47.8 X 22.6
4V 2
270.40
1,216.80
Sept. 15,
1910
48.1 X 23.1
m
209.80
734.30
1911 j
46.8 X 22.9
-
_
_
Morris Kaplan, ......
Jan. 9,
I
4.0 X 4.0
50
1.00
50.00
f
10.2 X 14.5
9
16.00
144.00
Van Tassell Leather Company,
May 1,
191H
I
43.8 X 19.5
2
102.00
204.00
American Glue Company,
Oct. 1,
1910
47.1 X 23.0
SM
136.36
340.90
I
35.5 X 24.7
26
58.74
1,527.24
J. 0. Whitten Company, .
1902
I
67.2 X 12.0
24
8.50
204.00
Total,
-
-
-
-
7,408.88
1 By permission of the Board, dated July 25, 1917, effluent formerly passing through three settling basins
has been conducted through " Riensch-Wurl " screens and is allowed to enter the Metropolitan Sewer by
a special 15" branch.
Permission was granted with the provision that all existing connections and settling basins shall be
left intact and ready for use if necessary. One-half of screening plant was operated from December 12 to
31, 1917.
2 Successors to B. F. Kimball & Company.
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AND SEWERAGE BOARD.
127
PUMPING STATIONS.
Capacity and Results.
During the year 1917 the amount pumped at the various pumping
stations of the Metropolitan Sewerage Works has decreased from
2.6 per cent, to 15.6 per cent, as compared with last year's pumping.
The total cost of operation of the pumping stations has increased
17 per cent, as compared with that of last year. This increase is
due to an advance in the wages of all of the employees and to the
very great increase in the cost of fuel and supplies.
Average Daily Volume of Sewage lifted at Each of the Six Principal Metropolitan
Pumping Stations and at the Quincy (Hough's Neck) Sewage Lifting Station
during the Year, as compared with the Corresponding Volumes for the Previous
Year.
Average Daily Pumpage.
PUMPING STATION.
Jan. 1, 1916, to
Dec. 31, 1916.
Jan. 1, 1917, to
Dec. 31, 1917.
Decrease during the
Year.
Deer Island, ......
Gallons.
66,300,000
Gallons.
64,600,000
Gallons.
1,700,000
Per Cent.
2.6
East Boston, ...
64,300,000
62,600,000
1,700,000
2.6
Charlestown, ......
37,300,000
36,300,000
1,000,000
2.7
Alewife Brook
3,847,000
3,393,000
454,000
11.8
Quincy, .
4,780,000
4,033,000
747,000
15.6
Ward Street (actual gallons pumped),
29,864,000
28,457,000
1,407,000
4.7
Quincy (Hough's Neck) sewage lifting sta-
tion.
187,238
184,799
2,439
1.3
North Metropolitan System.
Deer Island Pumping Station.
At this station are four submerged centrifugal pumps with im-
peller wheels 8.25 feet in diameter, driven by triple-expansion engines
of the Reynolds-Corliss type.
Contract capacity of 1 pump: 100,000,000 gallons, with 19-foot lift.
Contract capacity of 3 pumps: 45,000,000 gallons each, with 19-foot lift.
Average duty for the year: 55,400,000 foot-pounds.
Average quantity raised each day: 64,600,000 gallons.
Force employed: 4 engineers, 1 relief engineer, 4 firemen, 4 oilers, 3 screenmen,
1 relief screenman and 1 laborer.
Coal used: Bituminous, costing from $5.85 to $9.60 per gross ton.
128
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Table of Approximate Quantities, Lifts and Duties at the Deer Island Pumping
Station of the North Metropolitan System.
Months.
Total
Pumpage
(Gallons).
Average
per Day
(Gallons).
Minimum
Day
(Gallons).
Maximum
Day
(Gallons).
Average
Lift
(Feet).
Average
Duty (ft.-lbs.
per 100 lbs.
Coal).
1917
January, .
2,005,900,000
64,700,000
50,400,000
100,800,000
11.18
59,000,000
February,
1,810,800,000
64,700,000
50,400,000
105,000,000
11.20
49,900,000
March,
2,149,400,000
69,300,000
48,600,000
104,000,000
11.48
49,200,000
April,
2,081,500,000
69,400,000
54,700,000
104,200,000
11.19
53,900,000
May,
2,243,600,000
72,400,000
54,700,000
117,700,000
11.84
58,300,000
June,
2,208,200,000
73,600,000
58,800,000
108,300,000
11.19
59,600,000
July,
2,046,800,000
66,000,000
50,900,000
81,900,000
10.69
65,400,000
August, .
1,931,500,000
62,300,000
43,800,000
110,300,000
11.22
55,800,000
September,
1,539,100,000
51,300,000
42,200,000
93,900,000
10.46
46,000,000
October, .
1,737,500,000
58,000,000
35,800,000
97,500,000
11.41
46,500,000
November,
1,751,100,000
58,400,000
46,300,000
73,700,000
11.11
61,500,000
December,
2,029,900,000
65,500,000
49,900,000
111,000,000
10.81
59,900,000
Total,
23,535,300,000
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64,600,000
48,900,000
100,700,000
11.15
55,400,000
Average Cost per Million Foot-gallons for Pumping at the Deer Island Station,
Volume (23,535.3 Million Gallons) X Lift (11.15 Feet) = 262,418.6 Million Foot-gallons.
Items.
Cost.
Cost per
Million Foot-
gallons.
Labor,
$18,550 61
$0.07069
Coal, ..........
16,788 97
0.06398
Oil,
Waste,
Water,
275 75
155 48
1,448 40
0.00105
0.00059
0.00552
Packing,
127 31
0.00046
Miscellaneous supplies, repairs and renewals,
1,345 39
0.00513
Totals,
$38,691 91
$0.14744
Labor at screens, .........
$3,543 86
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No. 57.]
AND SEWERAGE BOARD.
129
East Boston Pumping Station.
At this station are four submerged centrifugal pumps, with im-
peller wheels 8.25 feet in diameter, driven by triple-expansion engines
of the Reynolds-Corliss type.
Contract capacity of 1 pump: 100,000,000 gallons with 19-foot lift.
Contract capacity of 3 pumps: 45,000,000 gallons each, with 19-foot lift.
Average duty for the year: 73,700,000 foot-pounds.
Average quantity raised each day: 62,600,000 gallons.
Force employed; 4 engineers, 2 relief engineers, 3 firemen, 1 relief fireman, 4
oilers, 3 screenmen, 1 relief screenman, 3 helpers and 1 laborer.
Coal used: Bituminous, costing from $5.55 to $10.38 per gross ton, and anthra-
cite screenings, costing $6.72 per gross ton.
Table of Approximate Quantities, Lifts and Duties at the East Boston Pumping
Station of the North Metropolitan System.
Months.
Total
Pumpage
(Gallons).
Average
per Day
(Gallons).
Minimum
Day
(Gallons).
Maximum
Day
(Gallons).
Average
Lift
(Feet).
Average
Duty (ft.-lbs.
per 100 lbs.
Coal).
1917
January, .
1,943,900,000
62,700,000
48,400,000
98,800,000
14.97
76,800,000
February,
'
1,754,800,000
62,700,000
48,400,000
103,000,000
15.14
79,600,000
March,
2,087,400,000
67,300,000
46,600,000
102,000,000
14.87
76,400,000
April,
2,021,500,000
67,400,000
52,700,000
102,200,000
14.82
82,400,000
May,
2,181,600,000
70,400,000
52,700,000
115,700,000
15.01
75,500,000
June,
2,148,200,000
71,600,000
56,800,000
106,300,000
15.09
74,500,000
July,
1,984,800,000
64,000,000
48,900,000
79,900,000
15.46
89,300,000
August, .
1,869,500,000
60,300,000
41,800,000
108,300,000
14.87
67,000,000
September,
1,479,100,000
49,300,000
40,200,000
91,900,000
14.56
60,300,000
October, .
1,737,500,000
56,000,000
33,800,000
95,500,000
15.14
63,800,000
November,
1,691,100,000
56,400,000
44,300,000
71,700,000
15.47
69,800,000
December,
1,967,900,000
63,500,000
47,900,000
109,000,000
15.48
68,900,000
Total,
22,867,300,000
-
-
-
-
-
Average,
-
62,600,000
46,900,000
98,700,000
15.07
73,700,000
130
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Average Cost per Million Foot-gallons for Pumping at the East Boston Station.
Volume (22,867.3 Million Gallons) X Lift (15.07 feet) = 344,610.2 Million Foot-gallons.
Items.
Cost.
Cost per
Million Foot-
gallons.
Labor,
$21,131 14
$0.06132
Coal, ...
17,113 92
004966
Oil
631 68
0.00183
Waste,
.
86 67
000025
Water,
1,633 20
0.00474
Packing, .
102 99
000030
Miscellaneous supplies,
repairs and renewals,
2,205 33
0.00640
Totals,
$42,904 93
$0.12450
Labor at screens,
$1,642 50
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Charlestown Pumping Station.
At this station are three submerged centrifugal pumps, two of
them having impeller wheels 7.5 feet in diameter, the other 8.25
feet in diameter. They are driven by triple-expansion engines of
the Reynolds-Corliss type.
Contract capacity of 1 pump: 60,000,000 gallons with 8-foot lift.
Contract capacity of 2 pumps: 22,000,000 gallons each, with 11-foot lift.
Average duty for the year: 53,100,000 foot-pounds.
Average quantity raised each day: 36,300,000 gallons.
Force employed: 4 engineers, 1 relief engineer, 4 firemen, 3 oilers, 3 screenmen
and 1 relief screenman.
Coal used: Bituminous, costing from $5.75 to $9.30 per gross ton.
No. 57.]
AND SEWERAGE BOARD.
131
Table of Approximate Quantities, Lifts and Duties at the Charlestown Pumping
Station of the North Metropolitan System.
Months.
Total
Pumpage
(Gallons).
Average
per Day
(Gallons).
Minimum
Day
(Gallons).
Maximum
Day
(Gallons).
Average
Lift
(Feet).
Average
Duty (ft.-lbs.
per 100 lbs.
Coal).
1917
January, .
1,141,600,000
36,800,000
28,700,000
52,700,000
8.20
51,100,000
February,
1,041,000,000
37,200,000
25,800,000
53,300,000
8.24
50,000,000
March,
1,201,900,000
38,800,000
26,600,000
55,900,000
8.64
57,300,000
April,
1,038,300,000
34,600,000
27,300,000
56,300,000
8.39
49,000,000
May,
1,212,300,000
39,100,000
30,100,000
61,400,000
8.48
53,200,000
June,
1,165,900,000
38,900,000
30,500,000
55,600,000
8.32
51,400,000
July,
995,800,000
32,100,000
24,000,000
41,200,000
8.41
55,900,000
August, .
1,146,100,000
37,000,000
23,100,000
55,800,000
8.11
49,300,000
September,
1,057,100,000
35,200,000
22,700,000
63,900,000
8.65
57,100,000
October, .
1,061,700,000
34,200,000
21,800,000
52,100,000
8.29
52,300,000
November,
986,900,000
32,900,000
24,000,000
39,100,000
8.25
51,200,000
December,
1,193,200,000
38,500,000
29,100,000
64,600,000
7.91
59,700,000
Total,
13,241,800,000
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-
Average,
-
36,300,000
26,100,000
54,300,000
8.32
53,100,000
Average Cost per Million Foot-gallons for Pumping at the Charlestown Station.
Volume (13,241.8 Million Gallons) X Lift (8.32 Feet) = 110,171.8 Million Foot-gallons.
Items.
Cost per
Million Foot-
gallons.
Labor, . .
Coal, . .
Oil,
Waste,
Water,
Packing,
Miscellaneous supplies, repairs and renewals,
Totals,
Labor at screens,
$15,033 11
7,190 15
150 55
104 71
707 10
110 99
153 93
$23,450 54
$3,456 26
$0.13645
0.06526
0.00136
0.00095
0.00642
0.00101
0.00140
$0.21285
132
METROPOLITAN WATER
[Pub. Doc.
Aleivife Brook Pumping Station.
The plant at this station consists of two 9-inch Andrews com-
mercial centrifugal pumps, direct connected by horizontal shafts to
compound marine engines, together with a pump and engine added
later. The latter consists of a specially designed engine of the ver-
tical cross-compound type, having between the cylinders a centrif-
ugal pump rotating on a horizontal axis.
Contract capacity of the 2 original pumps: 4,500,000 gallons each, with 13-foot
lift.
Contract capacity of new pump: 13,000,000 gallons, with 13-foot lift.
Average duty for the year: 15,400,000 foot-pounds.
Average quantity raised each day: 3,393,000 gallons.
Force employed: 3 engineers, 1 relief engineer, 3 screenmen and 1 relief screen-
man.
Coal used: Bituminous, costing from $9.75 to $10.76 per gross ton, and anthra-
cite screenings, costing $5.70 per gross ton.
Table of Approximate Quantities, Lifts and Duties at the Alewife Brook Pumping
Station of the North Metropolitan System.
Months.
Total
Pumpage
(Gallons).
Average
per Day
(Gallons).
Minimum
Day
(Gallons).
Maximum
Day
(Gallons).
Average
Lift
(Feet).
Average
Duty (ft.-lbs.
per 100 lbs.
Coal).
1917
January, .<
94,700,000
3,055,000
2,246,000
4,922,000
13.10
15,500,000
February,
87,407,000
3,122,000
2,414,000
6,636,000
13.06
15,900,000
March,
141,737,000
4,572,000
3,229,000
6,400,000
12.98
19,100,000
April,
137,342,000
4,578,000
3,814,000
6,636,000
12.94
18,700,000
May,
146,399,000
4,723,000
3,526,000
7,108,000
12.99
18,300,000
June,
127,279,000
4,243,000
3,574,000
6,141,000
13.00
16,900,000
July,
92,226,000
2,975,000
2,372,000
4,677,000
12.93
15,500,000
August, .
83,911,000
2,707,000
2,246,000
4,860,000
13.00
14,700,000
September,
72,916,000
2,430,000
2,078,000
4,922,000
13.03
14,000,QOO
October, .
82,394,000
2,658,000
1,910,000
4,376,000
13.01
12,600,000
November,
81,744,000
2,725,000
2,330,000
4,085,000
13.06
11,800,000
December,
90,811,000
2,929,000
2,414,000
5,494,000
13.08
11,300,000
Total,
1,238,866,000
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-
-
-
Average,
-
3,393,000
2,679,000
5,521,000
13.01
15,400,000
No. 57.]
AND SEWERAGE BOARD.
133
Average Cost per Million Foot-gallons for Pumping at the Alewife Brook Station.
Volume (1,238.866 Million Gallons) X Lift (13.01 Feet) = 16,117.64 Million Foot-gallons.
Items.
Cost per
Million Foot-
gallons.
Labor,
Coal, ...
Oil,
Waste, . . .
Water,
Packing,
Miscellaneous supplies, repairs and renewals,
Totals,
Labor at screens, oiling and miscellaneous services,
56,657 56
4,096 39
115 41
77 15
231 00
32 22
230 84
$11,440 57
$2,560 00
$0.41306
0.25416
000716
0.00479
0.01433
0.00200
0.01432
1.70982
South Metropolitan System.
Ward Street Pumping Station.
At this station are two vertical, triple-expansion pumping engines,
of the Allis-Chalmers type, operating reciprocating pumps, the
plungers of which are 48 inches in diameter with a 60-inch stroke.
Contract capacity of 2 pumps: 50,000,000 gallons each, with 45-foot lift.
Average duty for the year: 85,846,000 foot-pounds.
Average quantity raised each day: 28,457,000 gallons.
Force employed: 4 engineers, 1 relief engineer, 4 firemen, 5 oilers, 4 assistant
engineers, 1 machinist and 1 laborer.
Coal used: Bituminous, costing from $5.52 to $10.36 per gross ton.
Material intercepted at screens during the year, 1,521.3 cubic yards.
134
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[Pub. Doc.
Table of Approximate Quantities, Lifts and Duties at the Ward Street Pumping
Station of the South Metropolitan System.
Months.
Total
Pumpage
(Gallons).
Average
per Day
(Gallons).
Minimum
Day
(Gallons).
Maximum
Day
(Gallons).
Average
Lift
(Feet).
Average
Duty (ft.-lbs.
per 100 lbs.
Coal).
1917
January, .
853,331,000
27,527,000
21,260,000
37,312,000
42.07
84,223,000
February,
785,972,000
28,070,000
23,779,000
46,916,000
42.32
90,379,000
March,
1,021,329,000
32,949,000
25,832,000
46,053,000
42.64
88,528,000
April,
994,881,000
33,163,000
30,107,000
42,901,000
42.15
86,506,000
May,
1,096,103,000
35,358,000
29,345,000
47,056,000
41.95
97,613,000
June,
930,312,000
31,010,000
27,126,000
40,259,000
42.45
88,282,000
July,
758,311,000
24,462,000
20,571,000
28,511,000
41.52
77,848,000
August, .■
787,828,000
25,424,000
19,285,000
34,169,000
41.51
84,494,000
September,
687,343,000
22,911,000
19,649,000
33,946,000
41.48
79,822,000
October, .
836,506,000
26,984,000
20,155,000
39,386,000
41.48
83,356,000
November,
803,729,000
26,791,000
22,855,000
32,185,000
41.87
79,935,000
December,
831,686,000
26,829,000
23,675,000
41,133,000
41.38
89,170,000
Total,
10,387,331,000
-
-
-
-
-
Average,
-
28,457,000
23,637,000
39,152,000
41.90
85,846,000
Records from plunger displacements.
Average Cost per Million Foot-gallons for Pumping at the Ward Street Station.
Volume (10,387.3 Million Gallons) X Lift (41.90 Feet) = 435,229.2 Million Foot-gallons.
Items.
Cost.
Cost per
Million Foot-
gallons.
Labor,
$18,652 90
$0.04286
Coal
16,719 13
0.03841
Oil,
300 17
0.00069
Waste, '
107 43
0.00025
Water,
1,520 40
000349
Packing,
524 30
0.00120
Miscellaneous supplies, repairs and renewals,
2,957 93
0.00680
Totals
$40,782 26
$0.09370
Labor at screens,
$4,563 33
-
No. 57.]
AND SEWERAGE BOARD.
135
Quincy Pumping Station.
At this station are two compound condensing Deane pumping
engines and one Lawrence centrifugal pump driven by a Sturtevant
compound condensing engine.
Contract capacity of 3 pumps: Deane, 3,000,000 gallons; Deane, 5,000,000 gal-
lons; Lawrence centrifugal, 10,000,000 gallons.
Average duty for the year: 31,000,000 foot-pounds.
Average quantity raised each day: 4,033,000 gallons.
Force employed: 3 engineers, 1 relief engineer, 3 screenmen and 1 relief screen-
man.
Coal used: Bituminous, costing $10.60 per gross ton and anthracite screenings
costing $6.72 per gross ton.
Materials intercepted at screen during the year, 277 cubic yards.
Table of Approximate Quantities, Lifts and Duties at the Quincy Pumping Station
of the South Metropolitan System.
Months.
Total
Pumpage
(Gallons).
Average
per Day
(Gallons).
Minimum
Day
(Gallons).
Maximum
Day
(Gallons).
Average
Lift
(Feet).
Average
Duty (ft.-lbs.
per 100 lbs.
Coal).
1917
January, .
109,994,000
3,548,000
2,809,000
4,644,000
21.04
25,900,000
February,
95,195,000
3,400,000
3,054,000
4,627,000
21.04
25,400,000
March,
148,312,000
4,784,000
3,434,000
6,068,000
23.17
30,500,000
April,
159,178,000
5,306,000
4,423,000
7,650,000
25.26
33,100,000
May,
164,153,000
5,295,000
4,084,000
7,155,000
24.61
33,800,000
June,
183,426,000
6,114,000
4,159,000
9,846,000
24.04
34,100,000
July,
125,919,000
4,062,000
3,455,000
4,917,000
25.84
36,300,000
August, .
120,691,000
3,893,000
3,053,000
4,928,000
23.46
33,600,000
September,
112,817,000
3,761,000
3,267,000
4,620,000
21.86
30,900,000
October, .
118,612,000
3,826,000
3,100,000
6,481,000
21.49
29,100,000
November,
132,321,000
4,410,000
3,613,000
6,078,000
23.81
34,100,000
December,
121,475,000
3,919,000
3,527,000
4,416,000
22.31
26,200,000
Total,
1,592,093,000
-
-
-
-
-
Average,
-
4,033,000
3,498,000
5,953,000
23.16
31,000,000
13G
METROPOLITAN WATER
[Pub. Doc.
Average Cost per Million Foot-gallons for pumping at the Quincy Station.
Volume (1,592.1 Million Gallons) X Lift (23.16 Feet) = 36,873.03 Million Foot-gallors.
Items.
Cost.
Cost per
Million Foot-
gallons
Labor, ........
86,380 92
$0.17305
Coal,
3,786 98
0.10270
Oil
43 56
0.00118
Waste,
48 99
0.00133
Water,
260 41
0.00706
Packing,
61 77
000168
Miscellaneous supplies, repairs and renewals,
265 43
0.00720
Totals,
$10,848 06
$0.29420
Labor at screens, oiling and miscellaneous services.
$2,452 21
-
Nut Island Screen-house.
The plant at this house includes two sets of screens in duplicate
actuated by small reversing engines of the Fitchburg type. Two
vertical Dean boilers, 80 horse-power each, operate the engines,
provide heat and light for the house, burn materials intercepted at
the screens, and furnish power for the Quincy (Hough's Neck)
sewage lifting station.
Average daily quantity of sewage passing screens, 60,200,000 gallons.
Total materials intercepted at screens, 1,151.6 cubic yards.
Materials intercepted per million gallons of sewage discharged, 1.42 cubic feet.
Force employed: 3 engineers, 1 relief engineer, 3 screenmen and 1 relief screen-
man.
Coal used: Bituminous, costing from $6.60 to $9.31 per gross ton.
Quincy (Hough's Neck) Sewage Lifting Station.
At this station are two 6-inch submerged Lawrence centrifugal
pumps with vertical shafts actuated by two Sturtevant direct-
current motors.
The labor and electric energy for this station are supplied from
the Nut Island screen-house and as used at present it does not
materially increase the amount of coal used at the latter station.
The effluent is largely ground water.
Contract capacity of 2 pumps: about 1,500,000 gallons each, with 20-foot lift.
Average daily amount pumped: 184,799 gallons.
Average lift: 15.36 feet.
No. 57.]
AND SEWERAGE BOARD.
137
Coal delivered in the Bins of the Sewerage Works Pumping Stations during the Year.
Gross Tons
, Bituminous C
OAL.
M
3
'ft
a
3
P4
s .
& a
In O
u e?
Q
faO
3
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a
3
Pi
a
o
oi a
o o
PV43
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H
a
'a
a
S3
PH
a
Id
03 2
o
i
ft
a
3
Pi
m ■
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PQ-§
<££
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bC
3
'ft
a
3
Pi
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t-l
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a
3
4J O
3,3
3
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03
m
O
u
t-l
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ft
0>
JO
'u
Pi
New England Coal & Coke Com-
' 352
-
-
-
-
-
-
S5 85
pany.
New England Coal & Coke Com-
310
-
-
-
-
-
-
5 88
pany.
New England Coal & Coke Com-
332
-
-
-
-
-
-
5 90
pany.
New England Coal & Coke Com-
348
-
-
-
-
-
-
5 94
pany
Maritime Coaling Company,
1,000
-
-
-
-
-
-
9 60
New England Coal & Coke Com-
-
375
-
-
-
-
-
5 55
pany.
New England Coal & Coke Com-
-
1,275
-
-
-
-
-
5 65
pany.
New England Coal & Coke Com-
-
343
-
-
-
-
-
5 68
pany.
Metropolitan Coal Company,
-
155
-
-
-
-
-
6 72
Maritime Coaling Company, .
-
500
-
-
-
-
-
10 38
New England Coal & Coke Com-
-
-
304
-
-
-
-
5 77
pany.
New England Coal & Coke Com-
-
-
302
-
-
-
-
5 78
pany.
New England Coal & Coke Com-
-
-
299
-"
-
-
-
5 80
pany.
Coastwise Coal Company,
-
-
298
-
-
-
-
9 30
Riverside Coal Company,
-
-
-
41
-
-
-
5 70
Coleman Bros.,
-
-
-
47
-
-
-
9 75
Locke Coal Company, .
-
-
-
50
-
-
-
9 77
J. A. Whittemore's Sons,
-
-
-
2
-
-
-
10 10
Riverside Coal Company,
-
-
-
116
-
-
-
10 20
Locke Coal Company, .
-
-
-
29
-
-
-
10 50
Locke Coal Company, .
-
-
-
92
-
-
-
10 75
Locke Coal Company, .
-
-
-
25
-
-
-
10 76
Staples Coal Company,
-
-
-
-
66
-
-
5 52
Staples Coal Company,
-
-
-
-
79
-
-
5 57
Staples Coal Company,
-
-
-
-
108
-
-
5 58
Staples Coal Company,
-
-
-
-
187
-
-
5 59
Staples Coal Company,
-
-
-
-
122
-
-
5 62
Staples Coal Company,
-
-
-
-
399
-
-
5 63
Staples Coal Company,
-
-
-
-
210
-
-
5 64
Staples Coal Company,
-
-
-
-
80
-
-
5 65
Staples Coal Company,
-
-
-
-
85
-
-
5 67
1 Includes adjustments for quality.
138
METROPOLITAN WATER
[Pub. Doc.
Coal delivered in the Bins of the Sewerage Works Pumping Stations during the Year
— Concluded.
Gross Tons
, Bituminous C
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to
s
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to O
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Ph
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£'■$
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Ph
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2.2
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3
'ft
£
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Ph.
Staples Coal Company,
-
-
-
-
97
-
-
$5 68
Staples Coal Company,
-
-
-
-
87
-
-
5 69
Staples Coal Company,
-
-
-
-
566
-
-
10 35
Metropolitan Coal Company,
-
-
-
-
-
50
-
6 72
Riverside Coal Company,
-
-
-
-
-
205
-
10 60
Gorman-Leonard Coal Company,
-
-
-
-
-
-
248
6 60
New England Coal & Coke Com-
-
-
-
-
-
-
351
9 31
pany.
Total, bituminous, .
2,312
2,463
1,203
331
2,086
205
599
-
Total screenings,
-
155
-
41
-
50
-
-
Average cost, bituminous,
$7 47
$6 58
$6 65
$10 29
$6 90
$10 60
$8 19
-
Average cost,, screenings,
-
6 72
-
5 70
-
6 72
-
-
1 Includes adjustments for quality.
Metropolitan Sewerage Outfalls.
The original Deer Island outfall was placed at the approximate
elevation of mean low water of Boston Harbor. It consisted of a
circular opening 6 feet 3% inches in diameter and was put in opera-
tion in May, 1895.
By Chapter 344 of the Acts of the Year 1914 the Legislature
authorized the extension of this outfall to a point where the water
is approximately 55 feet deep at mean low water. Considerable
delay was experienced in getting the necessary license from the
United States Government and work was not started on this ex-
tension until July, 1916.
The extension consists of 9-foot lengths of cast-iron pipes varying
in diameter from 84 inches to 48 inches at the southerly end. This
outer pipe is open at the end and the preceding 13 pipes have
openings on the top. Through these 13 openings and through the
48-inch terminal pipe the sewage is discharged. The total length
No. 57.] AND SEWERAGE BOARD. 139
of the extension is 322 feet. The new outfall was put in operation
December 3, 1917.
Examinations have been made to determine the amount of dilu-
tion by this method as compared with that obtained by the former
method of discharge. Samples of diluted sewage taken at the out-
fall since December 3, 1917, have been examined by the State De-
partment of Health and have been compared by them with samples
taken in repeated examinations of dilution by the former method.
Mr. H. W. Clark, Director and Chief Chemist in the State De-
partment of Health, says: —
For a comparison you can turn to the report of the Metropolitan Sewerage
Commissioners upon "A High-level Gravity Sewer for the Relief of the Charles
and Neponset River Valleys." 1 You will find on page 111 of that report the
results of the analysis of samples collected by us during the investigation of
1898. The surface samples collected at the Deer Island Outfall at that time
contained from twenty to ninety times as much free ammonia and from five to
thirty-five times as much albuminoid ammonia as shown by the samples brought
in by you. Of course, many comparisons could be made of samples taken
during more recent years, but these, I think, are sufficient.
Observations have been carried on for only one month but the
indications are that the change in method has been successful to
a high degree in the matter of dilution and in the improvement of
the appearance of the harbor water at the point of discharge.
During construction work on this extension it was necessary to
divert the sewage through a temporary outfall. This consists of a
63^ foot concrete sewer leading into one line of 60-inch cast-iron
pipe which extends beneath the harbor bed southeasterly from the
extreme southerly end of Deer Island to a point where the water is
about 3 feet deep at mean low water. It is proposed to leave this
temporary outfall in place and at some future time extend it to a.
point where the water is 40 feet deep at low tide.
The two outfalls thus provided would afford means for such
ample dilution that probably no evidences of sewage could easily be
found.
The 60-inch outfalls of the South Metropolitan System, two of
which were completed in 1904 and the third one in 1915, are in
good condition and free from deposit.
During the year the average flow through the North Metro-
i 1899.
140 METROPOLITAN WATER, ETC., BOARD. [P. D. No. 57.
politan outfall at Deer Island has been 64,600,000 gallons of sewage
per 24 hours, with a maximum rate of 161,100,000 gallons during the
stormy periods in October and December. The amount of sewage
discharged in the North Metropolitan District averaged 114 gallons
per day for each person, taking the estimated population of the dis-
trict contributing sewage. If the sewers in this district were restricted
to the admission of sewage proper only, this per capita amount would
be considerably decreased.
In the South Metropolitan District an average of 60,200,000
gallons of sewage has passed daily through the screens at the Nut
Island screen-house, and has been discharged from the outfalls into
the outer harbor. The maximum rate of discharge per day, which
occurred during a heavy storm on October 24, was 162,000,000
gallons. The discharge of sewage through these outfalls represents
the amount of sewage contributed in the South Metropolitan System,
which was at the rate of 176 gallons per day per person of the
estimated number contributing sewage in the District.
The daily discharge of sewage per capita is considerably larger in
the South Metropolitan District than it is in the North Metropolitan
District, because, owing to the large size and unused capacity of the
High-level sewer, more storm water is at present admitted to the
sewers.
Material Intercepted at the Screens.
The material intercepted at the screens at the North Metro-
politan Sewerage stations, consisting of rags, paper and other float-
ing materials, has during the year amounted to 2,211 cubic yards.
This is equivalent to 2.537 cubic feet for each million gallons of
sewage pumped at Deer Island.
The material intercepted at the screens at the South Metro-
politan Sewerage stations has amounted to 2,949.9 cubic yards, equal
to 3.62 cubic feet per million gallons of sewage delivered at the
outfall works at Nut Island.
Studies of sewage flows in the Metropolitan sewers and siphons
indicate that they are free from deposit.
FREDERICK D. SMITH,
Chief Engineer of Sewerage Works.
Boston, January 2, 1918.
APPENDIX
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[Pub. Doc.
Appendix No. 1 .
Contracts made and pending during
[Note. — The details of contracts made before
1.
Number
of
Contract.
2.
WORK.
3.
Num-
ber of
Bids.
Amount
of Bid.
6.
4.
Next to
Lowest.
5.
Lowest.
Contractor.
1
374i
75 tons special castings,
4
$5,250 00
$5,100 00-
Standard Cast Iron
Pipe & Foundry Co.,
Bristol, Pa.
2
375i
Venturi meter tubes, registers
and parts.
-3
_3
-3
Builders Iron Foundry,
Providence, R. I.
3
377i
Water valves: 5 36-inch, 2 30-
inch, 4 16-inch and 5 12-inch
screw lift valves.
3
8,100 00
6,965 00 2
Coffin Valve Co., Bos-
ton.
4
378i
Check valves: 3 30-inch, 1 20-
inch and 1 10-inch check
valves.
4
1,535 00
1,527 002
Ludlow Valve Mfg.
Co., Troy, N. Y.
5
378-A 1
Check valves: 2 48-inch and
1 33-inch check valves.
3
3,072 00
2,350 00 2
Coffin Valve Co., Bos-
ton.
6
379i
Street chambers for Venturi
meter chambers; 6 cham-
bers.
2
2,022 00
1,650 002
Daniel Russell Boiler
Works, Boston.
7
332
Centrifugal pumping unit for
Northern Extra High Serv-
ice pumping station, Arling-
ton.
3
10,655 00
9,000 00 2
F. A. Mazzur & Co.,
Boston.
8
3S3
Horizontal fire-tube boiler for
Northern Extra High Serv-
ice pumping station, Arling-
ton.
3
2,339 00
2,296 002
New England Iron
Works Co., Boston.
9
334
500 tons 33-inch cast-iron
water pipe; 21 tons special
castings.
3*
32,330 00
31,860 00
l_
10
335
Electric power transmission
line between Wachusett
power station in Clinton
and Sudbury power station
in Southborough.
3
79,000 00
74,477 00 2
Fred T. Ley & Co.,
Springfield, Mass.
11
39-M
Sale and purchase of electric
energy to be developed at
Sudbury Dam.
2
-5
_5
Edison Electric Illu-
minating Co. of Bos-
ton.
1 Contract completed.
2 Contract based upon this bid.
3 Competitive bids were not received.
No. 57.]
AND SEWERAGE BOARD.
143
Appendix No. 1 .
the Year 1917 — Water Works.
1917 have been given in previous reports.]
7.
8.
9.
10.
Date of Con-
tract.
Date of
Completion
of Contract.
Prices of Principal Items of Contracts.
Value of
Work done
Dec. 31,
1917.
June 19, 1916
Oct. 5, 1917
See previous report, .......
$5,304 88
1
June 16, 1916
Apr. 5, 1917
See previous report, . ,
3,395 00
2
July 31, 1916
May 14, 1917
See previous report, . . .
6,965 00
3
Aug. 2, 1916
Mar. 13, 1917
See previous report, .......
1,527 00
4
July 31, 1916
Apr. 14, 1917
See previous report,
2,350 00
5
Oct. 31, 1916
Mar. 16, 1917
See previous report, .......
1,650 00
6
Mar. 31, 1917
r
For whole work, $9,000, . .
5,500 00
7
May 15, 1917
-
For whole work, $2,296
1,800 00
8
-
-
For 36-inch pipes, $58 and $59, and for special cast-
ings, $120 per ton of 2,000 pounds.
9
July 28, 1917
-
For transmission line with telephone circuit complete,
ready for regular operation, $74,477.
34,442 55
10
Dec. 21, 1914
-
See previous report,
30,692 47
11
4 All bids rejected, as appropriation was not sufficient for doing work proposed.
5 Contract based upon bid of $6.25 per M kilowatt hours for entire output. Other bid for portion of
output.
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METROPOLITAN WATER
[Pub. Doc.
Contracts made and pending during
1.
Number
2.
3.
Num-
Amount
of Bid.
6.
4.
5.
of
WORK.
ber of
Next to
Lowest.
Contractor.
Contract.
Bids.
Lowest.
12
46-M 1
1,500 tons anthracite screen-
ings for Chestnut Hill pump-
ing stations.
-3
_3
_3
C. W. Claflin & Co.,
Boston.
13
47-Mi
450 tons bituminous coal for
Arling-
$4.78 per
$4. 70 2 per
Garfield & Proctor
Arlington pumping station
ton
ton.
ton.
Coal Co., Boston.
and 120 tons for Hyde Park
station,
pumping station.
3.
Hyde
Park
station,
2.
$4. 50 2 per
ton.
$4.48 per
ton.
14
49-M i
4,500 tons bituminous coal for
3
$4.33 per
$4,282 per
E. Russell Norton,
Chestnut Hill pumping sta-
ton.
ton.
Boston.
tions.
15
50-M 1
Superstructure of garage at
Chestnut Hill Reservoir.
11
8,100 00
8,018 00-
Crowley & Hickey,
Boston.
16
51-M
Sale and purchase of electric
energy to be developed at
Wachusett Dam in Clinton.
1
$5.30 per
M kilowatt
hours.
New England Power
Co. & Edison Electric
Illuminating (Jo. of
Boston.
17
52-M
2,000 tons anthracite screen-
Chest-
$5.15 per
$4,202 per
Dexter & Carpenter,
ings for Chestnut Hill pump-
nut
ton, sub-
ton, sub-
Inc., Boston.
ing station, 240 tons for
Hill
ject to
ject to
Arlington pumping station.
sta-
tions,
2.
Arling-
ton
station ,
2.
change in
freight
rate.
$6 per ton,
subject to
change in
freight
rate.
change in
freight
rate.
$4,652 per
ton, sub-
ject to
change in
freight
rate.
•
18
53-M
400 tons anthracite screenings
for Spot Pond pumping sta-
tion.
1
$5.30 2 per
ton, sub-
ject to
change in
freight
rate.
Locke Coal Co., Mai-
den, Mass.
19
54-M
4,000 tons bituminous coal for
Chest-
$8.35 per
$7.35 2 per
Shaftsbury Coal and
Chestnut Hill pumping sta-
nut
ton, sub-
ton, sub-
Coke Co., Inc., New
tions, 400 tons for Arlington
Hill
ject to
ject to
York, N. Y.
pumping station.
sta-
tions,
2.
Arling-
ton
station,
1.
change in
freight
rate.
change in
freight
rate.
$7,802 per
ton, sub-
ject to
change in
freight
rate.
20
55-M
800 tons bituminous coal for
2
$11 per ton,
$8,702 per
E. Russell Norton,
Spot Pond pumping station.
delivered
at station.
ton, sub-
ject to
change in
freight
rate or
in mining
wage scale,
f . 0. b.
cars,
Melrose.
Boston.
1 Contract completed.
2 Contract based upon this bid.
No. 57.]
AND SEWERAGE BOARD.
145
the Year 1917 — Water Works — Continued.
7.
Date of Con-
tract.
8.
Date of
Completion
of Contract.
9.
Prices of Principal Items of Contracts.
10.
Value of
Work done
Dec. 31,
1917.
June 7, 1916
June 9, 1916
Apr. 9, 1917
July 13, 1917
June 15, 1916
Sept. 29, 1916
Jan. 13, 1917
June 4, 1917
June 21, 1917
June 15, 1917
June 6, 1917
July 9, 1917
May 28, 1917
See previous report,
See previous report,
$1,201 00
2,668 96
12
13
See previous report,
See previous report,
19,117 95
8,029 85
Maximum amount required to be taken, 7 million
kilowatt hours per year; contract to continue for
10 years from completion of transmission line being
constructed under Contract No. 385.
For anthracite screenings delivered on cars at the
Chestnut Hill pumping stations, $4.20 per ton of
2,240 pounds, and on cars at the Arlington pumping
station, $4.65 per ton of 2,240 pounds; price in each
case subject to advance in freight rate.
6,020 39
14
15
16
17
For anthracite screenings delivered in bins at the Spot
Pond pumping station, $5.30 per ton of 2,240
pounds.
For bituminous coal delivered on cars at Chestnut
Hill pumping stations, $7.35 per ton of 2,240 pounds ;
and on cars at the Arlington pumping station, $7.80
per ton of 2,240 pounds, price in each case subject to
advance in freight rate.
For bituminous coal delivered on cars at the Melrose
station on the Boston & Maine Railroad, $8.70 per
ton of 2,240 pounds, subject to advance in freight
rate and on basis of mining wage scale in effect May
4, 1917.
1,906 84
15,020 37
5,556 13
It
19
20
3 Competitive bids were not received.
146
METROPOLITAN WATER
[Pub. Doc.
Contracts made and pending during
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
1.
Number
of
Contract.
56-M
57-M
58-M»
59-M
60-Mi
Agree-
ment.
Special
Order. >
Special
Order. ]
2.
WORK.
Venturi meter tube, register
and chart recorder.
Vertical fire-tube boiler for
Clinton Sewerage pumping
station.
Feed-water heater for Chest-
nut Hill pumping station.
Ash conveyor for Spot Pond
pumping station.
Pelton motor and generator
for Spot Pond pumping sta-
tion.
Sale and purchase of electric
energy to be developed at
Wachusett Dam after expira-
tion of Contract No. 22-M
and until energy is delivered
under Contract No. 51-M,
which cannot be done until
the completion of the trans-
mission line being con-
structed under Contract
No. 385.
Plumbing at Sudbury power
station, Southborough.
Valves for use in connection
with centrifugal pumping
unit for Northern Extra
High Service pumping sta-
tion (Contract No. 382).
3.
Num-
ber of
Bids.
3 s
3
2
Amount of Bid.
Next to
Lowest.
$2,100 00
538 00
1,250 00
214 00
540 30
5.
Lowest.
-»
$1,950 00
525 00
609 00
-3
208 00 2
439 492
Contractor.
Builders Iron Foundry,
Providence, R. I.
Edward P. Brock &
Co., Boston.
George J. Hagan Co.,
Boston.
Pelton Water Wheel
Co., Inc., New York,
N. Y.
New England Power
Co., Boston.
J. B. Moulton, Fram-
ingham, Mass.
Jenkins Brothers, Bos-
ton.
1 Contract completed.
2 Contract based upon this bid.
3 Competitive bids were not received.
6 All bids rejected on account of abnormally high prices.
No. 57.]
AND SEWERAGE BOARD.
147
the Yeae 1917 — Water Works — Continued.
7.
Date of Con-
tract.
8.
Date of
Completion
of Contract.
9.
Prices of Principal Items of Contracts.
10.
Value of
Work done
Dec. 31,
1917.
Sept. 26, 1917
Oct. 15, 1917
Oct. 19, 1917
June 11, 1917
Oct. 1, 1916
Nov. 28, 1916
Aug. 23, 1917
Nov. 28, 1917
Oct. 27, 1917
Feb. 1, 1917
Oct. 10, 1917
For a 2-inch extra heavy meter tube having a range of
from 1,360 to 17,600 pounds per hour and a Type V
register-indicator recorder, $725.
For double-coil Type A, American Standard Feed-
water Heater, $525.
For Hagan steam jet ash conveyor,
For 18-inch motor with direct connected 2J^ kilowatt
generator, $545.
See previous report,
See previous report,
For 12 4-inch and 2 3-inch extra heavy iron body, com-
position mounted Globe valves, $439.49.
$725 00
520 21
545 00
45,472 25
208 00
430 70
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
7 Agreement made with New England Power Company, with which the Connecticut River Trans-
mission Company, the contractor under Contract No. 22-M, was consolidated.
148
METROPOLITAN WATER
[Pub. Doc.
Contracts made and pending during the Year 1917 — Water Works —
Concluded.
Summary of Contracts, 1895 to 1917, inclusive. 1
Value of
Work done Dec.
31, 1917.
Distribution Department, 8 contracts,
Wachusett Department, 1 contract, ....
382 contracts completed from 1896 to 1916, inclusive,
Deduct for work done on 11 Sudbury Reservoir contracts by the city of Boston,
Total of 391 contracts,
$28,491 88
34,442 55
17,378,082 63
$17,441,017 06
512,000 00
$16,929,017 06
1 In this summary contracts charged to maintenance are excluded.
No. 57.]
AND SEWERAGE BOARD.
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Table No. 2. — Rainfall in Inches at Jefferson, Mass., in 1917.
Day of Month.
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3
3
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>>
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3
9
XI
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§
1,
-
0.083
-
-
0.68
-
-
-
0.16
-
-
0.651
2,
3,
4,
5,
0.89*
2
0.03»
2
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
0.95
1.571
1.823
-
2
2
-
-
-
2
-
-
6,
-
-
-
2
0.86 :
0.27
-
-
0.08
0.50
-
-
7,
-
-
-
0.873
2
0.16
-
-
-
-
-
-
8,
-
-
0.38
-
2
0.19
-
-
0.28
2
-
0.293
9,
0.12
0.45 1
-
0.073
2
-
-
0.07
-
0.21
-
-
10,
-
-
-
-
2
2
-
0.24
-
-
-
-
11,
-
-
0.573
-
2
2
0.75
-
-
0.09
-
-
12,
.-
-
-
-
2
1.09
-
-
-
2
-
-
13,
2
-
-
-
0.413
-
-
0.36
-
0.68
-
2
14,
0.63»
-
0.18»
-
-
0.31
-
-
-
-
-
1.651
15,
-
-
-
-
-
0.63
0.06
-
-
0.23
-
-
16,
-
-
-
-
-
0.96
-
-
-
-
-
-
17,
-
-
0.413
-
-
0.55
-
1.23
2
-
-
-
18,
-
-
-
0.17
-
-
-
-
0.36
0.07
-
-
19,
-
0.24i
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
2
-
-
20,
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
0.51
-
-
21,
2
-
-
0.24
-
-
-
1.31
-
-
-
-
22,
0.49 3
0.06 1
-
-
2
-
-
-
-
-
0.683
-
23,
-
-
2
-
0.74
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
24,
-
0.41
0.423
-
-
0.31
0.37
0.19
-
1.97
-
-
25,
-
-
-
-
0.173
-
-
0.11
-
-
-
-
26,
-
2
-
0.13
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
27,
2
1.10
0.793
0.30 s
-
0.20
-
-
-
2
-
-
28,
2
-
-
-
2
-
-
-
0.12
0.45
0.14'
0.051
29,
0.36'
-
0.07
-
0.89
019
-
2
-
-
-
-
30,
-
-
-
0.09
-
-
-
1.78
029
1.66
-
-
31,
0.283
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
0.57»
-
T
otals
•
3.72
3.91
4.67
1.87
3.75
4.86
1.18
5.29
1.29
6.37
1.39
2.64
1 Snow.
Total for the year, 40.94 inches.
2 Rainfall included in that of following day.
3 Rain and snow.
No. 57.]
AND SEWERAGE BOARD.
151
Table No. 3.
— Rainfall in Inches at Framingham, Mass.>
in 1917.
Day of Month.
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-
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-
-
-
0.09
-
-
2
2,
-
-
2
0.01
0.60
0.05
0.04
-
-
-
-
1.02 3
3,
0.46 f
-
0.061
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
4,
-
2
0.271
-
2
-
0.11
-
-
0.01
-
0.021
5,
0.96
0.84'
2.041
2
2
0.03
-
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-
2
-
-
6,
-
-
-
2
1.69
-
-
-
0.02
0.31
-
-
7,
-
-
-
1.125
-
2
-
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-
-
-
-
8,
-
-
0.37
2
-
2
-
-
0.20
-
-
0.683
9,
0.05
0.34 s
-
0.33 1
0.02
0.44
-
0.84
-
2
-
-
10,
-
-
-
-
-
2
-
0.48
-
2
-
-
11,
0.03 !
-
2
-
-
2
0.88
-
-
0.25
-
-
12,
-
-
0.56 s
0.01
2
1.61
0.02
-
-
2
-
2
13,
2
0.02i
-
0.01
0.24
-
-
-
-
0.48
- j
2
14,
0.68
-
2
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
1.041
15,
-
-
0.08 s
-
-
0.15
-
-
-
2
-
-
16,
-
-
-
-
-
0.25
-
-
-
0.03
-
-
17,
- ■
-
31 s
-
-
1.22
-
1.25
2
-
-
-
18,
19,
20,
-
2
-
0.06
-
-
0.05
-
0.73
0.05
2
-
-
-
0.243
-
2.
-
-
-
-
0.16
0.61
0.02
-
21,
2
-
-
0.45
2
-
-
0.66
-
-
2
-
22,
0.56 s
0.041
-
-
2
-
-
2
-
-
2
-
23,
-
2
2
-
0.66
-
-
2
-
-
0.66
-
24,
-
0.30
0.25
-
-
0.21
-
0.20
-
2
-
2
25,
-
-
-
-
0.01
-
-
0.05
-
2.10
-
0.033
26,
-
2
-
2
' -
0.22
-
-
-
-
-
-
27,
2
0.68
1.10
0.42
0.41
-
0.05
-
-
2
-
-
28,
0.07
-
-
-
2
-
-
-
0.16
0.36
0.141
-
29,
0.08'
-
0.08
2
2
2
-
2
-
-
-
-
30,
-
-
-
0.02
1.07
0.10
-
2.63
0.14
1.04
0.47 s
-
31,
0.57 1
-
0.08
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Totals,
3.46
2.64
5.20
2.43
4.70
4.28
1.15
6.11
1.50
5.24
1.29
2.79
i Snow.
Total for the year, 40.79 inches.
2 Rainfall included in that of following day.
3 Rain and snow.
152
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[Pub. Doc.
Table No. 4. — Rainfall in Inches at Chestnut Hill Reservoir, 1917.
Date.
Amount.
Duration.
Date.
Amount.
Duration.
Jan. 3, .
.491
1.20 p.m. to
9.25 p.m.
May 1, .
}
.65
9.45 a.m. to
Jan. 5, .
}
.94
9.30 a.m. to
May 2, .
4.25 a.m.
Jan. 6, .
1.45 a.m.
May 4, .
}
1.88
11.55 p.m. to
Jan. 9, .
.14
6.05 p.m. to
9.15 p.m.
May 6, .
10.45 a.m.
Jan. 11, .
.121
9.05 a.m. to
2.10 p.m.
May 9, .
.11
5.10 a.m. to
4.15 p.m.
Jan. 14, .
.73 2
1.40 a.m. to 12.30 p.m.
May 12, .
}
.39
10.50 a.m. to
Jan. 21, .
}
.551
8.35 p.m. to
May 13, .
3.40 a.m.
Jan. 22, .
4.00 A.M.
May 13, .
}
.27
6.55 a.m. to
Jan. 27, .
.121
11.30 p.m. to
May 14, .
2.00 A.M.
Jan. 28, .
7.30 p.m.
May 22, .
}
.31
3.45 a.m. to
Jan. 29, .
I
.102
5.30 p.m. to
May 23, .
6.45 p.m.
Jan. 30, .
/
4.00 A.M.
May 25, .
.04
8.30 a.m. to
4.20 p.m.
Jan. 31, .
.50 2
6.50 p.m. to 1]
May 27, .
.35
10.20 a.m. to
8.30 p.m.
May 28, .
}
1.32
11.50 A.M. to
Total,
3.69
May 29, .
Total,
8.15 p.m.
5.32
Feb. 1, .
.152
1.20 a.m. to 10.00 A.M.
Feb. 4, .
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9.35 p.m. to
6.45 p.m.
Feb. 5, .
Feb. 9, .
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7.30 a.m. to
Feb. 10, .
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3.30 a.m.
Feb. 13, .
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10.30 p.m. to
June 2,
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7.00 a.m. to
7.25 p.m.
Feb. 14, .
1.50 A.M.
June 6,
.04
12.30 a.m. to
2.45 a.m.
Feb. 19, .
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9.45 p.m. to
June 7,
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6.15 a.m. to
Feb. 20, .
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3.30 a.m.
June 9,
7.30 a.m.
Feb. 23, .
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8.10 p.m. to
June 10,
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8.30 a.m. to
Feb. 24, .
8.45 a.m.
June 12,
7.30 a.m.
Feb. 25, .
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12.30 p.m. to
June 15,
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1.70
6.00 a.m. to
Feb. 26, .
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11.45 p.m.
June 17,
7.35 p.m.
June 24,
.24
2.30 a.m. to
7.30 a.m.
Total,
2.68
June 26,
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11.55 p.m. to
June 27,
June 29,
.11
5.40 p.m. to
3.15 A.M.
Mar. 3,
12.30 a.m. to
10.35 p.m.
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7.00 A.M.
Mar. 4,
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I.861
5.45 a.m. to
Total,
3.82
Mar. 5,
9.00 p.m.
Mar. 8,
.47
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5.20 a.m. to
1.50 A.M. to
2.45 p.m.
8.30 a.m.
Mar. 11,
Mar. 11,
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8.30 a.m. to
Mar. 12,
1.55 A.M.
Mar. 14,
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4.20 p.m. to 1(
July 2, .
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6.20 a.m. to
7.30 a.m.
Mar. 17,
.29
1.15 p.m. to
9.30 p.m.
July 2, .
.12
9.25 p.m. to
9.50 p.m.
Mar. 23,
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9.45 p.m. to
July 3, .
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5.15 p.m. to
Mar. 24,
9.30 a.m.
July 4, .
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4.50 a.m.
Mar. 27,
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1.07
2.45 p.m. to
July 11, .
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12.55 p.m. to
Mar. 28,
2.15 A.M.
July 12, .
5.15 A.M.
Mar. 29,
.09
6.15 a.m. to
1.30 p.m.
July 27, .
.50
3.45 p.m. to
5.30 p.m.
Apr. 1,
.10
2.45 a.m. to
7.30 a.m.
Total,
1.00
Total,
4.81
Apr. 2,
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7.45 p.m. to
Apr. 3,
11.00 a.m.
Apr. 6,
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1.40
2.15 a.m. to
Aug. 9,
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3.70
3.40 a.m. to
Apr. 7,
4.55 p.m.
Aug. 10,
10.45 a.m.
Apr. 9,
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4.10 a.m. to
1.45 p.m.
Aug. 17,
.78
8.35 a.m. to
8.30 p.m.
Apr. 18,
.09
9.50 a.m. to
3.15 p.m.
Aug. 21,
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3.45 p.m. to
Apr. 20,
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Aug. 22,
1.25 A.M.
Apr. 21,
4.45 a.m.
Aug. 23,
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1.50 a.m. to
Apr. 21,
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6.00 p.m. to
Aug. 24,
8.10 A.M.
Apr. 22,
12.30 a.m.
Aug. 29,
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1.62
6.00 p.m. to
Apr. 26,
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9.30 a.m. to
Aug. 30,
6.30 a.m.
Apr. 27,
4.30 a.m.
Aug. 30,
.73
5.15 p.m. to
7.30 p.m.
Apr. 27,
.05
8.30 a.m. to
5.30 p.m.
Total,
7.50
Total,
3.01
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AND SEWERAGE BOARD.
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Concluded.
Date.
Amount.
Duration.
Date.
Amount.
Duration.
Sept. 1,
.04
11.45 A.M.
to 4.15 p.m.
Nov. 21,
.03
3.00 a.m. to
5.50 a.m.
Sept. 6,
.04
10.35 a.m.
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Sept. 8,
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4.00 A.M.
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Nov. 23,
2.30 a.m.
Sept. 17,
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1.18
8.00 p.m.
to
Nov. 23,
.04
7.00 p.m. to
9.30 p.m.
Sept. 18,
12.20 p.m.
Nov. 28,
.211
7.00 a.m. to
2.30 p.m.
Sept. 20,
.30
1.50 p.m.
to 4.20 p.m.
Nov. 30,
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4.25 p.m to
Sept. 28,
.21
4.30 a.m.
to 12.30 p.m.
Dec. 1,
7.30 a.m.
Sept. 30,
.09
1.50 p.m.
to 8.15 p.m.
Total,
1.08
Total,
1.98
Dec. 1,
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7.30 a.m. to
Oct. 5. .
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.37
7.30 a.m.
to
Dec. 2,
3.15 a.m.
Oct. 6, .
5.45 a.m.
Dec. 4,
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.061
9.15 p.m. to
Oct. 9, .
.16
3.45 p.m.
to 10.30 p.m.
Dec. 5,
1.30 A.M.
Oct. 11, .
.25
12.15 A.M.
to 5.00 p.m.
Dec. 8,
.53
8.30 p.m. to 11
Oct. 12, .
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.59
9.40 p.m.
to
Dec. 12,
}
.051
7.50 p.m. to
Oct. 13, .
12.45 a.m.
Dec. 13,
9.30 a.m.
Oct. 15, .
.07
6.50 a.m.
to 5.00 p.m.
Dec. 14,
.692
12.15 a.m. to
6.00 a.m.
Oct. 18, .
.04
5.00 A.M.
to 7.30 A.M.
Dec. 16,
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10.00 p.m. to
Oct. 19, .
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.56
9.30 p.m.
to
Dec. 17,
9.45 a.m.
Oct. 20, .
4.40 a.m.
Dec. 28,
.041
7.30 a.m. to 1(
Oct. 24, .
2.53
5.55 a.m.
to 9.00 p.m.
Oct. 27, .
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.31
9.45 p.m.
to
Total,
2.35
Oct. 28, .
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1.50
11.30 p.m.
2.50 a.m.
to
Oct. 29, .
Oct. 30, .
7.30 p.m.
Total,
6.38
1 Snow.
Total for year, 43.62 inches.
2 Rain and snow.
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Table Xo. 13. — Sources from which and Periods during which Water has been
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Number of
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flowing.
Actual Time.
Million
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January,
26
258
45
3,194.9
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23
218
25
2,773.1
March., .
25
223
5
822.0
April,
24
220
12
2,479.2
May,
26
232
11
2,681.4
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27
272
55
3,221.8
July,
25
233
57
3,368.0
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27
274
49
3,480.1
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24
220
10
3,094.6
October,
26
243
37
3,057.5
November,
23
200
48
1,353.0
December,
26
250
50
3.368.3
Totals,
302
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44
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Total actual time, 118.86 days.
Total quantity drawn, 32,893,930,000 gallons.
From Sudbury Reservoir through the Weston Aqueduct to Weston Reservoir.
Total actual time, 185.80 days.
Total quantity drawn, 19,008,800,000 gallons.
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From Framingham Reservoir No. 3 through the Sudbury Aqueduct to Chestnut Hill Reservoir.
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Actual Time
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Million
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31
734.5
1,885.3
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28
672
1,833.2
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744
1,644.5
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30
720
1,415.1
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31
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1,471.5
June,
30
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1,423.9
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31
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2,090.6
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2,010.6
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1,591.6
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1,607.8
November,
30
720
1,417.2
December,
31
744
1,885.5
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365
8,750.5
20,276.8
Total actual time, 364.60.
Total quantity drawn, 20,276,800,000 gallons.
Table No. 14.
Average Daily Quantity of Water flowing through Aqueducts
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Month.
Wachusett
Aqueduct
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Sudbury
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Cochituate
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into
Chestnut Hill
Reservoir
(Gallons).
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102,906,000
55,545,000
60,816,000
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February,
98,882,000
53,021,000
65,472,000
-
March,
26,348,000
52,977,000
53,048,000
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April, .
82,483,000
51,853,000
47,170,000
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May, .
86,342,000
52,594,000
47,468,000
-
June, .
107,237,000
55,473,000
47,463,000
-
July, .
108,478,000
46,681,000
67,439,000
-
August,
112,090,000
47,616,000
64,858,000
1,042,000
September,
103,000,000
49,397,000
53,053,000
3,103,000
October,
98,481,000
53,277,000
51,865,000
-
November, .
44,957,000
53,337,000
47,240,000
-
December, .
108,497,000
53,323,000
60,822,000
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Average,
89,963,000
52,079,000
55,553,000
344,000
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METROPOLITAN WATER
[Pub. Doc.
Appendix No. 3 .
WATER WORKS STATISTICS FOR THE YEAR 1917.
The Metropolitan Water Works supply the Metropolitan Water
District, which includes the following cities and towns: —
City or Town.
Population,
Census of 1915.
Estimated
Population,
July 1, 1917.
Boston,
Somerville,
Maiden,
Chelsea,
Newton, l
Everett,
Quincy,
Medford,
Melrose,
Revere,
Watertown,
Arlington,
Milton,
Winthrop,
Stoneham,
Swampscott,
Lexington,
Belmont, .
Nahant,
Total population of Metropolitan Water District,
Saugus, 2 .........
745,439
86,854
48,907
43,426
43,113
37,718
40,674
30,509
16,880
25,178
16,515
14,889
8,600
12,758
7,489
7,345
5,538
8,081
1,387
776,520
91,060
51,160
46,300
44,640
39,780
43,110
33,340
17,560
28,070
17,900
16,290
9,050
14,040
7,680
7,770
5,790
8,940
1,480
1,201,300
280
1,260,480
280
1 Not regularly supplied from the Metropolitan Water Works, but an emergency supply was furnished
Jan. 22, 1918.
2 Only a small portion of Saugus was supplied with water.
Pumping.
Chestnut Hill Pumping Station No. 1: —
Builders of pumping machinery, Holly Manufacturing Company, Quintard
Iron Works and E. P. Allis Company.
Description of coal used: — Bituminous: 72.8 per cent. Ake Mine and Daven-
port. Anthracite: screenings 27.2 per cent. Price per gross ton in bins:
bituminous $4.51 to $7.65, screenings $4.21 to $4.47. Average price per
gross ton $5.16. Per cent, ashes 13.2.
Chestnut Hill Pumping Station No. 2: —
Builders of pumping machinery, Holly Manufacturing Company.
Description of coal used: — Bituminous: 62.5 per cent. Ake Mine and Daven-
port. Anthracite: screenings 37.5 per cent. Price per gross ton in bins:
bituminous $4.36 to $10.51, screenings $3.25 to $4.29. Average price per
gross ton $5.37. Per cent, ashes 17.5.
Spot Pond Station: —
Builders of pumping machinery, Geo. F. Blake Manufacturing Company and
Holly Manufacturing Company.
Description of coal used: — Bituminous: 65.3 per cent. Davenport. Anthracite:
screenings 34.7 per cent. Price per gross ton in bins: bituminous $6.64 to
$9.49, screenings $5.39. Average price per gross ton $7.56. Per cent, ashes 16.1.
No. 57.]
AND SEWERAGE BOARD.
205
•
Chestnut Hill Pumping Stations.
No. 1.
No. 2.
Engines
Nos.
1 and 2.
Engine
No. 3.
Engine
No. 4.
Engine
No. 12.
Daily pumping capacity (gallons), ....
Coal consumed for year (pounds),. ....
Cost of pumping, figured on pumping station ex-
penses,
Total pumpage for year, corrected for slip (million
Average dynamic head (feet), .....
Gallons pumped per pound of coal, ....
Duty on basis of plunger displacement,
Cost per million gallons raised to reservoir,
Cost per million foot gallons, .....
16,000,000
2,073,543
$12,577.03
1,016.02
133.48
489.99
56,170,000
$12.3787
.0927
20,000,000
20,014
$111.53
10.02
116.65
500.65
50,880,000
$11.1307
.0954
30,000,000
1,992,650
$13,947.57
2,824.12
120.36
1,417.27
144,960,000
$4.9387
.0410
40,000,000
6,242,526
$29,135.78
9,368.71
121.70
1,500.79
155,230,000
$3 . 1099
.0256
Chestnut Hill
Pumping
Station No. 2.
Spot Pond
Station.
Engines Nos. 5,
6 and 7.
Engines Nos. 8
and 9.
Daily pumping capacity (gallons), . . * .
Coal consumed for year (pounds),
Cost of pumping, figured on pumping station expenses,
Total pumpage for year, corrected for slip (million gallons),
Average dynamic head (feet), .......
Gallons pumped per pound of coal, . . . .
Duty on basis of plunger displacement, .....
Cost per million gallons raised to reservoir,
Cost per million foot gallons, ........
105,000,000
3,854,610
$30,537.01
7,013.97
33.24
1,819.63
51,420,000
$4.3537
.1310
30,000,000
2,876,199
$23,040.94
2,802.56
130.08
974.40
107,730,OQO
$8.2214
.0632
Consumption.
Estimated total population of the eighteen cities and towns sup-
plied wholly or partially during the year 1917, . . . 1,215,840
Total consumption (gallons), meter basis, 40,161,778,000 1
Average daily consumption (gallons), meter basis, . . . 110,032,000
Gallons per day to each inhabitant, meter basis, ... 90 . 5
Distribution.
Owned and
operated by
Total in District
Metropolitan
supplied
Water
by Metropolitan
and Sewerage
Water Works.
Board.
-2
-2
Sizes, .....
76-4 inch.
76-4 inch.
Extensions, less length abandoned (miles),
0.07
18.46
Length in use (miles),
122.34
1,901.29
12
-
533
-
-
2,803
-
182,192
-
4,622
-
131,630
-
236
Fire hydrants now in use, .
—
17,543
1 58.79 per cent, pumped; 41.21 per cent, by gravity.
2 Cast-iron, cement-lined wrought-iron, cement-lined steel and kalamine pipe.
206
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Appendix No. 4.
Contracts made and pending during
Contracts relating to the
1.
Number
of
Contract.
2.
WORK.
3.
Num-
ber of
Bids.
Amount of Bid.
6.
4.
Next to
Lowest.
5.
Lowest.
Contractor.
1
2
1351
1401
Section 1, Deer Island outfall
extension, North Metropoli-
tan System, Deer Island,
Boston Harbor.
6,900 tons of coal: —
2,700 tons for Deer Island
pumping station.
3,000 tons for East Boston
pumping station.
1,200 tons for Charlestown
pumping station.
3
2
2
2
$62,612 00
$6,02 per
ton.
$5,84 per
ton.
$5.84 per
ton.
$38,930 00 2
$5.90 per
ton. 2
$5.65 per
ton. 2
$5.75 per
ton. 2
Roy H. Beattie, Inc.,
Fall River.
New England Coal and
Coke Company, Bos-
ton.
Contract completed.
No. 57.]
AND SEWERAGE BOARD.
207
Appendix No. 4.
the Year 1917 — Sewerage Works.
North Metropolitan System.
7.
Date of Con-
tract.
8.
Date of
Completion
of Work.
9.
Prices of Principal Items of Contracts
made in 1917.
10.
Value of
Work done
Dec. 31,
1917.
April 22, 1916
June 14, 1916
Dec. 5, 1917
July 1, 1917
$43,873 92
39,189 56
2 Contract based upon this bid.
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METROPOLITAN WATER
[Pub. Doc.
Contracts relating to the
1.
Number
of
Contract.
2.
WORK.
3.
Num-
ber of
Bids.
Amount op Bid.
6.
4.
Next to
Lowest.
5.
Lowest.
Contractor.
1
2
3
4
5
1331
1361
138
1411
143
Section 104, High-level sewer,
Wellesley extension, South
Metropolitan System in
Needham.
Two vertical fire tube boilers
for Ward Street pumping
station.
Section 98, High-level sewer,
Wellesley extension, South
Metropolitan System in
West Roxbury and Dedham.
2,500 tons of coal for Ward
Street pumping station.
Section 102, High-level sewer,
Wellesley extension, South
Metropolitan System in
Needham.
8
2
3
1
3
$64,272 50
12,300 00
79,040 00
66,293 40
$59,055 00 2
9,160 00 2
54,630 00 2
$5.63 per
ton. 2
$62,041 75 2
Bay State Dredging
and Contracting
Company, Boston.
D. M. Dillon Steam
Boiler Works, Fitch-
burg.
Thomas Russo & Co.,
Boston.
Staples Coal Company
Boston.
Bruno & Petitti, Bos-
ton.
i Contract completed.
No. 57.]
AND SEWERAGE BOARD.
209
South Metropolitan System.
7.
Date of Con-
tract.
8.
Date of
Completion
of Work.
9.
Prices of Principal Items of Contracts
made in 1917.
10.
Value of
Work done
Dec. 31,
1917.
Dec. 22, 1915
May 20, 1916
July 13, 1916
June 14, 1916
Oct. 2, 1916
Jan. 20, 1917
March 9, 1917
July 1, 1917
Work abandoned by the Contractor before any portion
was completed. Work provided for is now being
completed in accordance with the specifications by
Geo. M. Bryne.
$62,232 47
9,160 00
140,245 58
14,316 10
66,081 29
2 Contract based upon this bid.
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[Pub. Doc.
Contracts made and pending during the year 1917 — Sewerage Works
— Concluded.
Summary of Contracts.
Value of
Work done Dec.
31, 1917.
North Metropolitan System, 2 contracts,
South Metropolitan System, 5 contracts,
Total of 7 contracts made and pending during the year 1917,
$83,063 48
292,035 44 .
$375,098 92
No. 57.] AND SEWERAGE BOARD. 211
Appendix No . 5.
FINANCIAL STATEMENT PRESENTED TO THE GENERAL COURT
ON JANUARY 16, 1918.
The Metropolitan Water and Sewerage Board respectfully presents
the following abstract of the account of its receipts, expenditures,
disbursements, assets and liabilities for the year ending November
30, 1917, together with recommendations for legislation which it
deems desirable, in accordance with the provisions of chapter 235
of the Acts of the year 1906.
Metropolitan Water Works.
Construction.
The loans authorized for expenditures under the Metropolitan
Water acts, the receipts which are added to the loan fund, the ex-
penditures for the construction and acquisition of works, and the
balance available on December 1, 1917, have been as follows: —
Loans authorized under Metropolitan Water acts, . . . $42,798,000 00
Receipt from town of Swampscott for admission to Metropolitan
Water District, paid into Loan Fund (St. 1909, c. 320), . 90,000 00
Receipts from the sales of property which are placed to the
credit of the Metropolitan Water Loan Fund: —
For the year ending November 30, 1917, . $3,049 83
For the period prior to December 1, 1916, . 250,597 81
343,647 64
Amount approved for payment by the Board out of the Met-
ropolitan Water Loan Fund: —
For the year ending November 30, 1917, . $68,938 11
For the period prior to December 1, 1916, 42,911,903 14
$43,141,647 64
42,980,841 25
Balance December 1, 1917, $160,806 39
The amount of the Metropolitan Water Loan bonds issued at the
end of the fiscal year was $42,752,000, bonds to the amount of
$150,000 having been issued during the year. Of the total amount
212 METROPOLITAN WATER [Pub. Doc.
issued, $41,398,000 were sinking fund bonds, and the remainder,
amounting to $1,354,000, were issued as serial bonds.
At the end of the year the amount of outstanding bonds was
$42,648,000, as bonds issued on the serial payment plan to the
amount of $104,000 had been paid. During the fiscal year $32,000
in serial bonds has been paid.
The Metropolitan Water Loan Sinking Fund amounted on De-
cember 1, 1917, to $14,036,278.88, an increase during the year of
$768,079.52.
Maintenance.
Amount appropriated for the maintenance and oper-
ation of works, for the year ending November 30,
1917, $572,900 00
Special appropriation for protection of water supply
in aqueducts (1911) remaining, .... 9,930 60
Special appropriations for protection and improve-
ment of the water supply (1912, 1913 and 1916)
remaining, 21,455 13
Receipts credited to this fund for the year ending
November 30, 1917, 3,304 50
$607,590 23
Amount approved by Board for maintenance and operation of
works during the year ending November 30, 1917, . . . 510,679 43
Balance December 1, 1917, . . . . . . .- . $96,910 80
This balance includes the sum of $9,930.60, the amount remaining
unexpended of the special appropriation for the protection of the
water supply in aqueducts, and the sums of $2,713.93, the amount
remaining unexpended of the special appropriation in 1912, and
$56.89 of the special appropriation in 1913, and $7,533.54 of the
appropriation in 1916 for the protection and improvement of the
water supply.
The Board has also received during the year ending November 30,
1917, $74,023.22 from rentals, the sale of land, land products and
power and from other proceeds from the operations of the Board,
which, according to section 18 of the Metropolitan Water Act, are
applied by the Treasurer of the Commonwealth to the payment of
interest on the Metropolitan Water Loan, to sinking fund require-
ments, and expenses of maintenance and operation of works, in
reduction of the amount to be assessed upon the Metropolitan
Water District for the year.
No. 57.] AND SEWERAGE BOARD. 213
Sums received from sales of water to municipalities not belonging
to the District and to water companies, and from municipalities for
admission to the District, have been applied as follows : —
For the period prior to December 1, 1906, distributed to the cities
and towns of the District, as provided by section 3 of the Met-
ropolitan Water Act, $219,865 65
For the period beginning December 1, 1906, and prior to December
1, 1916, applied to the Metropolitan Water Loan Sinking Fund,
as provided by chapter 238 of the Acts of 1907, .... 72,666 07
For the year beginning December 1, 1916, and ending November
30, 1917, applied to the Metropolitan Water Loan Sinking Fund,
as provided by said last-named act, 4,134 35
$296,666 07
Metropolitan Sewerage Works.
Construction.
The loans authorized under the various acts of the Legislature
for the construction of the Metropolitan Sewerage Works, the re-
ceipts which are added to the proceeds of the loans, and the ex-
penditures for construction, are given below, as follows : —
North Metropolitan System.
Loans authorized for expenditures for construc-
tion under the various acts, including those for
the Revere, Belmont and Maiden extensions,
North System enlargements and extensions,
New Mystic sewer, Deer Island Outfall ex-
tension, lowering sewer siphon under Maiden
River, balance of appropriation under chapter
76, Resolves of 1915, and for the Reading ex-
tension, $7,512,365 73
Receipts from sales of real estate and from mis-
cellaneous sources, which are placed to the
credit of the North Metropolitan System: —
For the year ending November 30, 1917,
For the period prior to December 1, 1916,
Amount approved for payment by the Board 1
out of the Metropolitan Sewerage Loan Fund,
North System: —
For the year ending November 30, 1917,
For the period prior to December 1, 1916,
Balance December 1, 1917,
1 The word "Board" refers to the Metropolitan Sewerage Commission and its successor, the Metro-
politan Water and Sewerage Board.
127 57
85,648 89
L
t
$37,829 87
7,246,534 49
$7,598,142 19
$7,284,364 36
$313,777 83
214 METROPOLITAN WATER [Pub. Doc.
South Metropolitan System.
Loans authorized for expenditures for construc-
tion under the various acts, applied to the con-
struction of the Charles River valley sewer,
Neponset valley sewer, High-level sewer and
extensions (including Wellesley Branch), and
an additional appropriation authorized by
chapter 285, General Acts of 1917, and for ad-
ditional Ward Street station pumping plant, . $9,587,046 27
Receipts for pumping, sales of real estate and
from miscellaneous sources, which are placed to
the credit of the South Metropolitan System : —
For the year ending November 30, 1917, . 282 52
For the period prior to December 1, 1916, . 19,101 41
Amount approved by Board for payment as
follows: —
On account of the Charles River valley
sewer, . . . $800,046 27
On account of the Neponset valley sewer, . 911,531 46
On account of the High-level sewer and ex-
tensions : —
For the year ending November 30, 1917, . 248,784 36
For the period prior to December 1, 1916, 7,384,405 67
$9,606,430 20 $9,344,767 76
Balance December 1, 1917, ....... $261,662 44
The amount of the Metropolitan Sewerage Loan bonds issued at
the end of the fiscal year was $16,761,412, bonds to the amount of
$325,000 having been issued during the year. Of the total amount
issued, $15,440,912 were sinking fund bonds, and the remainder,
amounting to $1,320,500, were serial bonds.
At the end of the year the amount of the outstanding bonds was
$16,665,412, as bonds issued on the serial payment plan to the
amount of $36,500 had been paid during the year, $96,000 having
been paid to December 1, 1917.
Of the total amount outstanding at the end of the year, $7,413,500
was issued for the North Metropolitan System and $9,251,912 for
the South Metropolitan System. The Metropolitan Sewerage Loan
Sinking Fund amounted on December 1, 1917, to $3,925,792.75, of
which $2,475,165.88 was on account of the North Metropolitan
System and $1,450,626.87 w r as on account of the South Metropolitan
System, an increase during the year of $321,135.48.
No. 57.] AND SEWERAGE BOARD. 215
The net debt on December 1, 1917, was $12,739,619.25, a de-
crease of $33,635.48.
Included in the above figures for the North Metropolitan System
is $925,500 in serial bonds, of which $75,000 has been paid, and
$395,000 for the South Metropolitan System, of which $21,000 has
been paid.
Maintenance.
North Metropolitan System.
Appropriated for the year ending November 30, 1917, . . . $210,666 66
Receipts from pumping and from other sources, which are returned
to the appropriation: —
For the year ending November 30, 1917, 262 97
$210,929 63
Amount approved for payment by the Board : —
For the year ending November 30, 1917, 187,408 58
Balance December 1, 1917, $23,521 05
South Metropolitan System.
Appropriated for the year ending November 30, 1917, . . . $135,666 67
Receipts from sales of property and for pumping, which are re-
turned to the appropriation: —
For the year ending November 30, 1917, ..... 27986
$135,946 53
Amount approved for payment by the Board: —
For the year ending November 30, 1917, 130,685 35
Balance December 1, 1917, $5,261 18
216 METROPOLITAN WATER [Pub. Doc.
Appendix No. 6 .
LEGISLATION OF THE YEAR 1917 AFFECTING THE
METROPOLITAN WATER AND SEWERAGE BOARD.
General Acts, 1917.
Chapter 3.
An Act to authorize the construction of a trunk line
of the north metropolitan sewerage district
across a part of the town of reading.
Be it enacted, etc., as follows:
1916(G), 159, §2, Section 1. Section two of chapter one hundred and
amended. x
fifty-nine of the General Acts of the year nineteen hundred
and sixteen is hereby amended by inserting before the
word "Wakefield", in the fifth and sixth lines, the word:
North metro- — Reading, — so as to read as follows: — Section 2. The
politan sewerage ... j i j i n «j
district, trunk metropolitan water and sewerage board shall provide an
line sewer may ,, , i -r» t i • • t»i
be constructed outlet at the Heading town line in or near Brook street
for the sewage of said town, and, acting on behalf of the
commonwealth shall construct a main trunk sewer or
sewers through such parts of the towns of Reading, Wake-
field and Stoneham and the city of Woburn from the
Reading town line to such point in the north metropolitan
system as said board may determine to be necessary in order
to connect with a main trunk sewer in the Mystic valley.
Section 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage.
[Approved February 8, 1917.
Chapter 285.
An Act to provide for completing the extension
of the south metropolitan sewer to the town of
wellesley.
Be it enacted, etc., as follows:
Commonwealth Section 1. The treasurer and receiver general, in order
to issue bonds ,
for completion to provide for the completion of the extension of the high-
of the south * *
metropolitan level sewer authorized by chapter three hundred and forty-
sewer to town *
of Weiiesiey. three of the acts of the year nineteen hundred and fourteen,
No. 57.] AND SEWERAGE BOARD. ■ 217
shall, with the approval of the governor and council, issue
from time to time scrip or certificates of indebtedness in
the name and behalf of the commonwealth and under its
seal, to an amount not exceeding three hundred and twenty-
five thousand dollars, in addition to the amount authorized
by said chapter; and the provisions of said chapter and of
chapter four hundred and twenty-four of the acts of the
year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, and of all acts in
amendment thereof and in addition thereto shall, so far
as they may be applicable, apply to the indebtedness and
proceedings authorized by this act.
Section 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage.
[Approved May 24, 1917.
Chapter 287.
An Act to authorize the metropolitan water and
sewerage board to construct a powder transmission
line between the wachusett dam and the sudbury
DAM.
Be it enacted, etc., as follows:
Section 1. To enable the metropolitan water and Metropolitan
t • water and
sewerage board to construct a line for the transmission of sewerage board
• • i i • i ^° cons ^ ruc *
electricity between the power station at the Wachusett power transmis-
i • /-.!• ii • i n n i siOnhnebe-
dam in Clinton and the power station at the budbury dam tween Wachu-
oii i i i • r» i ill sett anc * Sud-
in Southborough, under authority of chapter one hundred bury dams.
and seventy-two of the General Acts of the year nineteen
hundred and sixteen, the treasurer and receiver-general
shall issue from time to time, upon the request of said
board, bonds in the name and behalf of the commonwealth,
designated on the face thereof, Metropolitan Water Loan, Metropolitan
Act of 1917, to an amount not exceeding twelve thousand of 1917.
dollars, to be taken from the unexpended balance of forty-
six thousand dollars authorized by chapter six hundred
and ninety-four of the acts of the year nineteen hundred
and twelve; and the provisions of chapter four hundred and
eighty-eight of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and
ninety-five, and of acts in amendment thereof and in
addition thereto, shall, so far as they may be applicable,
apply to the indebtedness and proceedings authorized by
this act.
Section 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage.
[Approved May 24, 1917.
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Metropolitan
water and
sewerage board
may sell, etc.,
water to United
States concen-
tration camps.
Certain provi-
sions of law to
apply.
Chapter 314.
An Act to authorize the metropolitan water and
sewerage board to sell and deliver water to
concentration camps established by the united
STATES.
Be it enacted, etc., as follows:
Section 1. The metropolitan water and sewerage board
is authorized to sell and deliver water from any of the
reservoirs or aqueducts of the metropolitan water system
to any concentration camp established in this common-
wealth by the United States, and to lay and maintain such
pipe lines and other works as may be necessary for the
purpose, upon such terms and conditions as may be agreed
upon by the duly authorized officer or representative of the
United States government and said board.
Section 2. The provisions of chapter four hundred and
eighty-eight of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and
ninety-five and acts in amendment thereof shall apply to
this act.
Section 3. This act shall take effect upon its passage.
[Approved May 25, 1917.
Chapter 322.
An Act to provide for the construction of a water
main in the east boston district of the city of
boston by the metropolitan water and sewerage
BOARD.
Be it enacted, etc., as follows:
New water main Section 1. The metropolitan water and sewerage board
for East Boston. r ...
is hereby authorized to construct a new thirty-six inch
water main about eighteen hundred feet in length to pro-
vide an additional supply of water for the East Boston
district of the city of Boston.
Section 2. To meet the expenses incurred under the
provisions of this act, the treasurer and receiver general
shall issue from time to time, upon the request of said
board, bonds in the name and behalf of the commonwealth
and under its seal, designated on the face thereof Metro-
Metropolitan politan Water Loan, Act of 1917, to an amount not ex-
W titer I oud Act
of*i9i7. ceeding thirty thousand dollars, to be taken from the
No. 57.] AND SEWERAGE BOARD. 219
unexpended balance of the amount authorized by chapter
six hundred and ninety-four of the acts of the year nine-
teen hundred and twelve, and the provisions of chapter four
hundred and eighty-eight of the acts of the year eighteen
hundred and ninety-five, and acts in amendment thereof
and in addition thereto, shall, so far as are applicable,
apply to the indebtedness and proceedings authorized by
this act.
Section 3. This act shall take effect upon its passage.
[Approved May 25, 1917:
Special Acts, 1917.
Chapter 150.
An Act relative to the water supply of the town of
ASHLAND.
Be it enacted, etc., as follows:
Section 1. Section two of chapter four hundred and 1908 > 4 _,56, § 2,
x ( amended.
fifty-six of the acts of the year nineteen hundred and eight
is hereby amended by striking out the semicolon after the
word "corporation", in the seventh line, and inserting in
place thereof the words : — or the whole or any part of its
supply of water from any municipal corporation owning and
operating water works, whose territory joins that of the
town of Ashland, and any such municipal corporation is
hereby authorized to furnish water for the town of Ashland
upon terms mutually agreed upon, and from its own au-
thorized sources of supply, — so as to read as follows : —
Section 2. Said town, for the purposes aforesaid, may Town of Ash-
j. i u -u xi~ j i- i j j. 1. land ma y take
take, or acquire by purchase or otherwise, and hold the certain water
nffiit's etc
waters of any pond or stream or of any ground sources
of supply, by means of driven, artesian or other wells
within the limits of the town, and the water rights con-
nected with any such water sources, or may purchase
water from any individual or corporation or the whole or
any part of its supply of water from any municipal cor-
poration owning and operating water works, whose territory
joins that of the town of Ashland, and any such municipal
corporation is hereby authorized to furnish water for the
town of Ashland upon terms mutually agreed upon, and
from its own authorized sources of supply; and may avail
itself of its existing rights and privileges reserved to it by
220 METROPOLITAN WATER [Pub. Doc.
the provisions of chapter one hundred and seventy-seven
of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and seventy-two:
Proviso. provided, however, that nothing in this act shall be construed
as increasing such rights and privileges, or may make
arrangements for obtaining water from the metropolitan
water system which shall be satisfactory to the town and
to the metropolitan water and sewerage board, and may
May take lands, also take, or acquire by purchase or otherwise, and hold
all lands, rights of way and easements necessary for collect-
ing, storing, holding, purifying and preserving the purity
of the water and for conveying the same to any part of said
Proviso as to in- town; provided, that there is no infringement upon the
fringement upon , . .
rights of metro- existing rights and privileges of the metropolitan water
system. system excepting as allowed for above, and provided, that
no source of water supply and no lands necessary for
preserving the quality of such water, shall be taken or used
without first obtaining the advice and approval of the
state board of health, and that the location of all dams,
reservoirs and wells to be used as sources of water supply
under this act shall be subject to the approval of said
May erect struc- board. Said town may construct on the lands acquired
tures, lay pipes, ^ n
etc - and held under the provisions of this act, proper dams,
reservoirs, standpipes, tanks, buildings, fixtures and other
structures, and may make excavations, procure and operate
machinery and provide such other means and appliances
and do such other things as may be necessary for the
establishment and maintenance of complete and effective
water works; and for that purpose may construct wells
and reservoirs, and establish pumping works, and may
construct, lay and maintain aqueducts, conduits, pipes
and other works under or over any land, water courses,
railroads, railways and public or other ways, and along
such ways in the town of Ashland, in such manner as not
unnecessarily to obstruct the same; and for the purpose of
constructing, laying, maintaining, operating and repairing
such conduits, pipes and other works, and for all proper
purposes of this act, said town may dig up or raise and
embank any such lands, highways or other ways in such
manner as to cause the least hindrance to public travel on
such ways. Said town shall not enter upon, construct or
lay any conduits, pipes or other works within the location
of a railroad corporation, except at such time and in such
manner as it may agree upon with such corporation, or, in
No. 57.] AND SEWERAGE BOARD. 221
case of failure so to agree, as may be approved by the board
of railroad commissioners.
Section 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage.
[Approved March 1, 1917.
Chapter 269.
An Act relative to the installation of water meters
in the city of boston.
Be it enacted, etc., as follows:
The provisions of section one of chapter five hundred and installation of
r *■ water meters in
twenty-four of the acts of the year nineteen hundred and Boston,
seven shall not apply to the city of Boston for the period
of one year after the passage of this act, so far as such
provisions relate to the equipment with water meters of
five per cent of the water services in that city which were
unmetered on the thirty-first day of December, nineteen
hundred and seven. [Approved April 10, 1917.
Chapter 322.
An Act in addition to the several acts making appro-
priations FOR SUNDRY MISCELLANEOUS EXPENSES
AUTHORIZED BY LAW.
Be it enacted, etc., as follows:
Section 1. The sums hereinafter mentioned are hereby
appropriated, to be paid out of the treasury of the common-
wealth from the ordinary revenue, unless otherwise specified,
to wit: —
For the investigation by the metropolitan water and metropolian ° f
sewerage board of the condition and capacity of the present s l^^ 0Q
metropolitan sewer in the town of Arlington, as authorized
by chapter twenty-two of the resolves of the present year,
to be paid from the North Metropolitan Sewerage Main-
tenance Fund, a sum not exceeding one thousand dollars.
Section 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage.
[Approved May 9, 1917.
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Basis of certain
payments in
lieu of taxes to
the town of Ster-
ling changed.
Repeal.
Chapter 346.
An Act to change the basis of payments in lieu of
taxes on real estate held by the commonwealth
in the town of sterling for purposes of the
metropolitan water supply.
Be it enacted, etc., as follows:
Section 1. Property held by the commonwealth in
the town of Sterling for the purposes of the metropolitan
water supply, if yielding no rent, shall not be liable to
taxation therein, but the commonwealth shall annually in
September pay to said town an amount equal to that which
the town would receive for taxes upon the average of the
assessed value of such land without buildings or other
structures, for the three years last preceding the acquisition
thereof, the valuation for each year being reduced by all
abatements thereon; but any part of such land or buildings
from which any revenue in the nature of rent is received
shall be subject to taxation; and the provisions of sections
eight, nine and ten of Part I of chapter four hundred and
ninety of the acts of the year nineteen hundred and nine,
and amendments thereof, shall apply to the reimbursement
of said town by the commonwealth on account of said
property.
Section 2. Section two of chapter four hundred and
forty-five of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and
ninety-seven is hereby repealed. [Approved May 23, 1917.
Investigation as
to sewage
disposal in the
towns of
Arlington and
Lexington.
Chapter 22.
Resolve to provide for an investigation as to sewage
disposal in the towns of arlington and lexington.
Resolved, That the metropolitan water and sewerage
board shall investigate the condition and capacity of the
present metropolitan sewer in the town of Arlington with
especial reference to its capacity to receive and dispose of
the sewage of that part of the town of Arlington tributary
to the same, and of the town of Lexington. The said
board is also authorized and directed to report a plan for
the new sewer contemplated by section four of chapter
five hundred and twenty of the acts of the year eighteen
hundred and ninety-seven, in the valley of Mill or Sucker
No. 57.] AND SEWERAGE BOARD. 223
Brook, so situated as to serve all parts of the said valley
and such adjacent territory as, in the opinion of the board,
should be served by the same. The board may employ
such engineering or other assistance as may be necessary,
and may incur an expense not exceeding one thousand
dollars in carrying out the provisions of this resolve. The
board shall report to the present general court not later
than the first day of May, with plans and estimates of the
cost of such construction as it may recommend. [Approved
March 8, 1917.
Chapter 114.
Resolve relative to the payment by the common-
wealth OF A SUM OF MONEY TO JACOB LANDER AND
HARRIS LANDER.
Resolved, That the metropolitan water and sewerage Jacob Lander
board be authorized to investigate the claim of Jacob Lander.
Lander and Harris Lander of Sherborn for damage to their
property at Saxonville in the town of Framingham by
reason of water escaping or released from a reservoir under
the control of the metropolitan water and sewerage board,
and to report to the next general court on or before the
second Wednesday in January what compensation, if any,
should justly be paid to them. [Approved May 24, 1917.
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[Pub. Doc.
INDEX TO LEGISLATION OF THE YEAR 1917 AFFECTING THE
METROPOLITAN WATER AND SEWERAGE BOARD.
APPROPRIATIONS.
to provide for completing extension of South Metropolitan sewer to
Wellesley, . . . . . . . . . .
to provide for construction of Wachusett-Sudbury transmission line, .
to provide for construction of water main in East Boston, .
to provide for an investigation of Arlington sewer, ...
ARLINGTON.
relative to investigation of sewage disposal in Arlington and
Lexington, ...........
ASHLAND.
relative to water supply for, .......
Chap. Sect.
G. 285
G. 287
G. 322
S. 322
Res. 22
S. 322
S. 150
B.
BOSTON.
relative to installation of water meters in,
S. 269
EAST BOSTON.
construction of water main in,
E.
G. 322
LANDER, JACOB AND HARRIS.
relative to payment of money to,
Res. 114
M.
METROPOLITAN WATER AND SEWERAGE BOARD.
authorized to construct water main in East Boston,
authorized to sell water to United States concentration camps, .
G. 322
G. 314
READING.
authorizing construction of trunk line sewer of North Metropolitan
Sewerage District across part of town of, . . . . G.
S.
STERLING.
to make change in basis of payments in lieu of taxes,
S. 346
No. 57.] AND SEWERAGE BOARD. 225
u.
UNITED STATES CONCENTRATION CAMPS. Chap. Sect.
authority to supply water to, . . . . . . G. 314 1
W.
WACHUSETT-SUDBURY TRANSMISSION LINE.
to authorize construction of, ....... G. 287 1
WATER METERS.
relative to installation of, in Boston, ...... S. 269 1
WELLESLET.
to provide for completing extension of South Metropolitan sewer to . G. 285 1
5V-£
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